124 OJiio Pomological Society. — New Horticultural Hall. 



OHIO POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



This society was organized in September, 1847; and is the oldest State 

 society of the kind in the Union. Its meetings were held annually till after the 

 organization of the American Pomological Society; then changed to biennially, 

 alternating with the meetings of that society: but, in 1863, the rule was again 

 adopted of meeting annually. Since that time, the legislature has granted the 

 society a small annual appropriation, sufficient to pay its expenses of printing 

 reports, &c.; and its transactions are also published in the annual volume of 

 Transactions of the State Board of Agriculture; so that the society is, in fact, 

 doing the work of a State Horticultural Society. Besides its annual meetings, 

 the society has a committee ad interim, consisting of the officers and four 

 members, whose duty it is to hold meetings during the summer and fall, and 

 examine and report on such fruits as cannot well come before the annual meet- 

 ing. A. H. Ernst, Esq., of Cincinnati, was president of the society from its 

 organization till his decease in i860; since which time the place has been filled 

 by Dr. J. A. Warder, of that city. M. B. BattJham, of Painesville, has long 

 been its secretary and treasurer. 



The fourteenth annual meeting of the society was held at Zanesville, Dec. 4 

 and 6, 1866. This Muskingum Valley is among the oldest settled portions of 

 Ohio, and was long famous for the production of fine apples, of which great 

 quantities were shipped down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans and 

 other Southern cities; but of late years this trade has greatly diminished. The 

 display of apples at the meeting was fine, embracing not less than four hundred 

 plates, and one hundred and fifty distinct varieties. Delegates were present 

 from Pennsylvania, New York, and Indiana. Discussion was had on apples, 

 pears, grapes, blackberries, and strawberries; also on blight in fruit-trees, 

 mildew and rot in grapes, &c. The place selected for the next annual meeting 

 is Sandusky. The following are the officers elected for 1867: — 



President. — Dr. J. A. Warder, Cincinnati. Vice-President. — G. W. 

 Campbell, Delaware. Secretary and Treasurer. — M. B. Bateham, Paines- 

 ville. Committee. — William Heaver, Cincinnati; J.Austin Scott, Toledo; A. 

 B. Buttles, Columbus; N. L. Wood, Smithfield. 



NEW HORTICULTURAL HALL. 



The new Horticultural Hall now being built in Philadelphia by the Pennsyl- 

 vania Horticultural Society is the largest horticultural hall in this country, and 

 among the largest of its public halls of any description. The entire building is 

 seventy-five feet front by two hundred feet deep and sixty feet high, with a cut- 

 stone front composed of a pearl-gray stone with brown stone-dressings. The 

 ceiling of the main hall is fifty feet high ; and it comprises a stage, an auditorium, 

 committee-rooms, a " Foyer," and a balcony. The ground-floor comprises two 

 large rooms, lumber-rooms, and a large banqueting-hall. A narrow gallery will 



