Q STATE POMOLOQICAL SOCIETY. 



and general financial depression, that the pendency of the Cen- 

 tennial Exposition would to a large extent engage the attention of 

 the people, and that many of our orchardists were discouraged by 

 the repeated destruction of their crops by caterpillars. But it 

 was deemed important that an exhibition should be held in order 

 that the work of the Society should suffer no relapse ; and it was 

 felt that if it should prove to be a failure it would be less detri- 

 mental than an entire suspension of operations. In order to 

 guard against possible failure, it was provided in the regulations 

 " that all premiums awarded should be liable to a pro rata reduc- 

 tion sufficient to meet any deficiency that might occur in the 

 receipts, to meet said premiums and other expenses." Unfortu- 

 nately, the continued prevalence of stormy weather during the 

 exhibition reduced the receipts to such a degree that the Execu- 

 tive Committee were compelled, reluctantly, to resort to such 

 reduction in preference to involving the Society in a permanent 

 debt ; and accordingly a discount of 25 per cent, on the premiums 

 was ordered, in which the members and other persons entitled to 

 premiums very generally and cheerfully acquiesced. 



The amount offered in premiums, subject to the above condition, 

 was $1,040.00, exclusive of $40.00 offered and paid in full by 

 James Vick, the celebrated fiorist and seedsman of Rochester, 

 N. Y., as special premiums for cut flowers. The total amount of 

 premiums awarded was $697.00. Further financial details of the 

 exhibition may be found in the report of the Executive Committee 

 hereto appended. 



The following schedule exibits the premiums offered, the condi- 

 tions affixed, the entries, and the premiums awarded. 



fNoTK — The names of persons to whom premiums were awarded are given first, under 

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

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 When the name of a person is repealed tho place of residence is 

 omitted.] 



