STATE POMOLOQICAL SOCIETY. 75 



KEPORT OF THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 



DB. J. C. WESTON OF BANGOR. 



One of the by-laws of the Maine State Pomologica;! Society, as 

 amended January 29, 18T4, requires that the Corresponding Secre- 

 tary shall correspond with other pomological and horticultural 

 societies, for the purpose of effecting an exchange of publications 

 with them, and to present at each annual meeting a report embuac- 

 iug the substance of all such matters contained in these publica- 

 tions as he shall deem of special interest to this Society. 



Copies of the first annual report, 1873-14, were sent to the 

 secretaries of the American and Michigan Pomological Societies, 

 and to the Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wis- 

 consin Horticultural Societies, with the expectation that they 

 would reciprocate. Copies were also sent to all the leading Agri- 

 cultural and Horticultural Journals of the country, and to many 

 of the prominent pomologists. 



We acknowledge with pleasure the receipt of the Proceedings 

 of the last session of the American Pomological Society, the Trans- 

 actions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Part I., 18T4, 

 its Schedule of Prizes, and the Catalogue of its Library; and also 

 the loan, from Mr. Samuel L. Boardman of Augusta, of late Re- 

 ports of Michigan Pomological Society, and Illinois and Wiscon- 

 sin Horticultural Societies. We have also received the Public 

 Documents of the National Department of Agriculture. A review 

 of these furnishes the materials of the following report : 



The Quarter Centennial Celebration of the American Pomological 

 Society in Boston, Mass., September, 1873, was an occasion of 

 great interest to all fruit growers. Members were present from 

 the States and Territories, and the Provinces of British America. 

 They came from the East and the West, from the North and the 

 South, from remote California — even from youthful Nebraska, rep- 

 resentative of the great American desert where sixteen years ago 

 not a fruit tree had been cultivated — and from territories where 

 but a few years since the track of the wild beast and trail of the 

 savage had only marked the soil, bringing the golden, crimson and 

 purple fruits of diversified climes, making a grand aggregate of 

 over six thousand dishes of fruit, and a display never surpassed on 

 this continent. 



