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tions to the Library have ah-eady been received from several 

 publishers, exchanges have been effected to some extent with 

 other societies, as before stated, and by the aid of the present and 

 former Secretaries of the Board of Agriculture, and some other 

 gentlemen, a nearly complete set of the agricultural reports of our 

 own State has been secured — some of these beiug very rare and 

 diflScult to obtain. 



Exhibitions. 



There is nothing in the nature of such purely sesthetical exhibi- 

 tions as this Society can with propriety undertake, calculated to 

 render their frequent recurrence pecuniarily profitable by attract- 

 ing large crowds of paying spectators. The territorial extent of 

 the State is so great as to render it impossible to hold a general 

 exhibition at any given point without great expense both to the 

 Society and to a majority of the individual members attending. 



Under these conditions, we have been obliged to relinquish for 

 the present at least, the idea of holding frequent exhibitions during 

 the summer and autumn months for specific purposes, which is 

 successfully carried out by many societies, and to adopt the best 

 possible compromise by holding our exhibition in each year at 

 such a time as to include our most important productions in a good 

 degree of development, without entirely excluding the others. 

 This indicates the latter part of September as being the time at 

 which, in average seasons, the best general exhibition of fruits 

 and flowers can be made in this State. It unfortunately compels 

 us to forego the exhibition of the important classes of small fruits 

 ripening in summer, and which are grown in large quantities with 

 success in many parts of the State, — an omission which it is incum- 

 bent on the Society to find means to correct at an early day. 



At the winter meetings of the society, also, specimens of fruits 

 are brought together, not so much for the purpose of exhibition 

 as to afford an opportunity lor the study and comparison of those 

 varieties which are in perfection at that season. 



In accordance with the principles above indicated, the Execu- 

 tive Committee met at Portland on the 12th of June, and made 

 arrangements for holding the 



Second Annual Exhibition 

 in that city on the 22d, 23d, 24th and 25th days of September, 

 1874, jointly with the Portland Horticultural Society. 



