200 } Assembly 



MARSHALL P. WILDER. 

 SAMUEL WALKER, 

 EBENEZER WIGHT, 



Committee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



THOMAS HANCOCK, 

 WM. D. BRINCKLE, 

 THOMAS McEWEN, 

 Committee of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society- 



R. S. FIELD, 

 H. W. S. CLEVELAND, 

 JAS. VAN DEVENTER, 

 Committee of the J^ew- Jersey Horticultural Society. 



ELI IVES, 



A. S. MONSON, 



GEO. GABRIEL, 



Committee of the Meiv-Haven Horticultural Society. 



PHILIP SCHUYLER, 

 R. T. UNDERHILL, 

 CHAS. HENRY HALL, 



• Committee of the Board of Agriculture of the American Institute. 

 New-York, July 28th, 1848. 



The Convention assembled in compliance with the terms of the 

 foregoing circular, but in a more convenient room, in the city of New- 

 York, in the Lecture Room of the Mercantile Library, (Clinton Hall,) 

 on Tuesday, the 10th day of October, at 11 o'clock, A. M. The 

 Hon. James Tallmadge called the meeting to order, and stated its ob- 

 jects asset forth in the circular issued by the several associations with 

 which the matter had originated. On motion of M. P. Wilder, of 

 Massachusetts, the Hon. James Tallmadge was appointed President, 

 and S. B. Parsons, Secretary pro tern. The following gentlemen 

 were then, on motion, appointed by the Chair a committee to report to 

 the Convention a list of officers for its government : Samuel Walker, 

 of Massachusetts ; Thomas Hancock, New- Jersey ; S. B. Parsons, 

 Long Island ; J. W. Hayes, New-Jersey, and Thomas Allen, Mis- 

 souri. 



It was moved and carried that a Vice-President be chosen from 

 each state represented in the Convention. 



On motion, the Chair appointed a business committee, consisting of 

 J. J. Thomas and A. J. Downing, of New-York, and R. S. Field, of 



New-Jerfey. 



