STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 3 



elsewhere, the Society will rest on its decisions as final. Among 

 these are the adaptability of our State to general fruit culture, the 

 home production of our fruit ti-ees, the certainty of profitable 

 results from high cultivation, the feasibility of pear culture in this 

 State,* etc. Many other questions, equally important, remain to 

 be settled. 



The catalogue of varieties of fruit to be recommended for culti- 

 vation received careful attention at the Winter Meeting, and is 

 re-published in this volume with such modifications as were there 

 made. It is still open for correction, and cultivators are requested 

 to give it the most careful scrutiny. 



It will be seen by the Report of the Corresponding Secretary 

 that the exchange of publications with similar societies in other 

 States has been carried on more fully than in previous years, and 

 by this ineans the Society is enabled to present to the public in a 

 condensed form a large amount of valuable information not other- 

 wise accessible. These publications will also, with such other 

 works as may be donated or purchased for the purpose, form a 

 valuable library for the use of the members. The library has not 

 yet assumed sufficient proportions to justify the publication of a 

 catalogue or the adoption of regula'tions for its use. There have 

 been added, besides the volumes mentioned in the Corresponding 

 Secretary's report, the following works not previously acknowl- 

 edged, viz : 



"Selected Fruits, from Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees of 

 America; by Charles Downing." Presented by the author, 



"The Scientific and Profitable Culture of Fruit Trees, from 

 the French of M. Du Breuil ; * * * by William Wardle. Pre- 

 sented by The Orange Judd Company, New York. 



"Transactions of the American Pomological Society," 1852, 

 1854, 1867, 1869, 1871 and 1873. Presented by G. B, Sawyer. 



The Society is still in want of standard text books on Pomology 

 and Horticulture. 



The Third Annual Exhibition. 



In accordance with the wish of the Society as expressed at the 



Winter Meeting of 1874-5, as well as to avoid the inconveniences 



to the public arising from the holding, of the exhibitions of two 



prominent State Societies at, or nearly at the same time, the 



* See report of Committee on this subject in proceedings of the Winter Meeting. 



