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Pomology, he said, had not until recently received the attention 

 its importance demanded ; but that a new impulse and a general in- 

 terest was now pervading the community on this subject, and that it 

 was only necessary to give this a right direction, to make it pro- 

 ductive of great good to ourselves, and of permanent advantage to 

 those who may come after us. 



The committee appointed to receive the names of delegates and 

 others in attendance at the Convention, reported as follows : 



DELEGATES. 



Massachusetts. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society. — M. P. Wilder, B. V. French, 

 Samuel Walker, Robert Manning, A, J. Downing, Josiah Lovett, A. 

 D. Williams, W, B. Kingsbury, Azell Bowditch. 



Worcester Horticultural Society. — John Milton Earle. 



Berkshire County Horticultural Society. — Asahel Foote, Samuel 

 Goodrichj Sewell Sargent, 



New-Bedford Horticultural Society. — James Arnold, H. H, Crape, 

 W. P. Jenny, J. B. Burgess, J. D. Hall. 



Northampton Agricultural, Horticultural and Floricultural Club. — 

 J. Stebbins Lathrop. 



Hampden County Horticultural Society. — C. W. Hartwell, D. C. 

 Brewer, B. K. Bliss. 



Massachusetts State Agricultural Society. — J. C. Gray. 



Berkshire Agricultural Society. — Asahel Foote, R. H. Campbell. 



JVew-York. 



New-York State Agricultural Society. — B. P. Johnson, James 

 Hall. 



Rensselaer County Agricultural Society. — William Buss well and 

 Amos Briggs. 



Albany and Rensselaer Horticultural Society. — Herman Wendel, 

 V. P. Douw, J. M.Ward, L. Tucker, B. B. Kirtland, James Wilson, 

 Wm. Thorburn. 



Buffalo Horticultural Society. — R. L. Allen. 



Long Island Horticultural Society. — Gabriel Winter, S. B. Par- 

 sons, W. W. Valk, R. B. Parsons, G. W. Huntsman. 



Westchester County Agricultural Society. — Jas. Hay, H. W. Tib- 

 bets, Wm. L. Ferris, D. K. Sherwood, Henry Wood, P. B. Mead. 



