4 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Executive Committee accepted the invitation extended early in the 

 Reason by the Trustees of the State Agricultural Society to i,he 

 other State societies, to a mutual conference on the subject. This 

 resulted in the adoption of a plan for a consolidated exhibition, to 

 be held at Portland, September 21st to 24th inclusive. The ar- 

 rangement was consummated and carried out to our entire satis- 

 faction. The departments of Fruit, Flowers, Vegetables and Farm 

 Crops were placed under the exclusive control of the Pomological 

 Society. The Portland Horticultural Society afterwards became 

 a party to the arrangement and contributed largely to the, success 

 of the exhibition. Some inconvenience was experienced from the 

 want of room for so extensive and varied an exhibition as was 

 thus brought together. Nearly every part of the spacious City 

 Building was occupied, as well as grounds of the Presumpscot 

 Park Association ; and yet the space assigned to our department 

 proved insufficient to allow of a favorable arrangement. In what 

 is hereafter said in relation to the exhibition we shall be un- 

 derstood as speaking onl3' of the departments assigned to this 

 Society. 



In accordance with the purposes which the Society has kept in 

 view from the outset, of making each exhibition more instructive 

 than the preceding one ; of inttoducing each year new and valu- 

 able features suggested by its experience, and of offering pre- 

 miums sufficient to bring out the best possible exhibition of the 

 horticultural products of the State, the previous premium lists 

 were carefully revised. The amount offered in premiums was 

 $1,232.00, of which $850 00 was guaranteed by the Board of 

 Managers of the consolidation. The amount of premiums and 

 gratuities awarded was $871.00, exclusive of $35.00 in special 

 premiums offered and paid by Mr. James Vick. 



The following schedule exhibits the premiums offered, the condi- 

 tions affixed, the entries, and the premiums awarded. 



[Note. — The names of persons to whom premiums were awarded are given first, under 

 each epeciCcution, with the amount awarded, and afterwards the names of other com- 

 petitors for the same. When the name of a person is repeated the place of residence is 

 omitted.] 



