STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 3 



trees." This principle has been adhered to ever since, and 

 repeated and enforced on every proper occasion. The State 

 Board of Agricnlture, also, opportunely coming to our aid, 

 and acting under the authority vested in it by the statute 

 law, some three years ago directed that the several county 

 agricultural societies receiving bounty from the State, should 

 offer certain specified premiums for the planting of new 

 orchards and the growing of native nursery stock. No 

 special report of the operations of the county societies under 

 these instructions has been made other than appears in their 

 yearl}^ doings in the report of the Board. This Society there- 

 fore thought it proper to undertake a census of the nui'sery 

 business, which it was known had attained considerable pro- 

 portions. Accordingly circulars were issued and notices 

 given through the newpapers, calling for the information 

 desired ; and the President of the Society undertook the task 

 of collating and verifying the statistics by personal corres- 

 pondence and observation. The result will appear in his 

 special report at the Winter Meeting, and though far from 

 being complete, are sufficient to indicate that the business is 

 no longer an experiment with respect to its J9rac^^ca6^7^Yy. 

 They also show that there are trees enough grown in the 

 State and now ready for marke^ to supplj^ our immediate 

 wants, and more than will, as a matter of fact, in any given 

 year, with our present degree of pomological knowledge be 

 judiciously planted and taken care of. The publication of 

 these statistics, though not intended in any sense as an adver- 

 tisement of the parties named, will, if it should inure to their 

 benefit, be no more, than a just reward for their enterprise 

 and skill. 



The library of the Society has received considerable addi- 

 tions by means of the exchange of publications with other 

 societies, which will together with the correspondence of the 

 Secretary, be made the subject of a special report hereafter. 



At the last Winter Meeting arrangements were made to 

 obtain more full information in respect to the business of 

 fruit growing in the several counties, and to bring the Society 



