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They also elected the Hon. Hannibal Belcher of Farminglon as a 

 member of the Board of Agriculture in behalf of said Society; 

 chose delegates to the meeting of the American Pomological 

 Society, to be held at Boston in September then following, and 

 instructed the Executive Committee to make arrangements for an 

 Autumn exhibition of fruits and flowers. This meeting was not 

 as fully attended as had been desired and expected, owing to the 

 interruption of travel by a severe snow storm, but sufficient in- 

 terest was manifested to warrant the society in proceediug with 

 the work for which it had been instituted. 



At a meeting of the Executive Committee, held at Augusta, 

 April 22, 1873, it was voted to appoint the followitig Standing 

 Committees, whose duties should be to correct errors in nomencla- 

 ture, examine new fruits and report upon the same at the annual 

 meetings, viz : 



On Apples and Pkars. S. L. Goodale, Saco ; S. N. Taber, Vas- 

 salboro'; Ira D. Fish, Patten; Henry Ingalls, Wiscasset; Nathan 

 Rogers, Troy. 



On Geapes, Cherries, Plums and Small Fruits. Henry McLaugh- 

 lin, Bangor; Dr. J. B. Bell, Augusta; Dr. Eliphalet Clarke, Port- 

 land ; E. P. Tobie, Lewiston ; H. G. 0. Alden, Belfast. 



It was also decided, upon a conference with the officers of the 

 State Agricultural Society, to hold the Autumn exhibition at Ban- 

 gor at the time of the annual Fair of that society ; the latter agree- 

 ing not to make any exhibition in the departments pertaining to 

 this Society. 



The Executive Committee met again, at Bangor, on the 18th and 

 19th of June, when they made arrangements with the officers of 

 the Bangor Horticultural Society for holding the exhibition jointly 

 with that society, securing the active co-operation of that efficient 

 organization, and the benefit of its long and successful experience. 

 A schedule of premiums was adopted, — the premiums offered 

 amounting to $598.00, — rules for the exhibition established, award- 

 ing committees appointed, and the arrangements substantially 

 completed. It was believed that notwithstanding the exception- 

 ally unfavorable preceding winter, and the consequently light crop 

 of growing fruit, the novelty of the exhibition, the liberal pre- 

 miums offered and the resources of th(j orchardists and horticul- 

 turists of Bangor and its vicinity, trained by long practice almost 

 to perfection in the arts of production and exhibition, would enable 

 as to make a creditable display. These expectations were partially 



