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Ancl accordingly, numerous certificates and lists of Jclcgates were 

 passed over to the ofHccrs. 



Mr. S. Walker, of Massachusetts, moved that the President and 

 Vice Presidents of the North American Pomological Convention, be 

 requested to take seats and act as members of this Congress. Carried. 



For the purpose of facilitating business, the Chair desired gentle- 

 men present to answer to their names as one of the Secretaries read 

 the certificates that had been sent in, and, if they belonged to com- 

 mittees, to slate whether theit associates, if not already in attendance, 

 "would be present. 



Mr. S. B. Parsons then read the credentials in his possession, and 

 from the responses it appeared that the subjoined States were repre-* 

 sented by the following gentlemen, most of whom were delegates 

 from Horticultural Societies : 



Maine. 

 State Jigricultural Ccm7nittees. -r-Rcmy Little, Bangor j S. L. 

 Goodale, Saco. 



Banger Horticultural Society. — Albert Koyes. 



Vbrmo^t. 

 Addison County Agricultural Society. — Solomon W. Jewett, Henry 



C. Hunt. 



Bennington County Agricultural Society. — Russell Mattison, Mar- 

 tin Slocum, German Mattison. 



Massachusetts. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society. — Marshall P. Wilder, B. V. 

 French, Samuel Walker, Robert Manning, C. M. Hovey. 



Essex Institute. — Robert Manning. 



Worcester Horticultural Society. — S. H. Colton, D. W. Lincoln. 



Jfew-Bedford Horticultural Society. — William P. Jenney. 



Hampden County Horticultural Society. — J. T. Ames, B. K. Bliss, 

 Titus Ammidon, Rufus Whillicr. 



Berkshire County Horticultural' Society . — Asahel Foote. 



COKNECTICUT. 



JVew-Haven County Horticultural Society. — George Gabriel, A. S. 

 Monson, M. D., John J. Walter, E. E. Clarke, James T. Gerry, S. 



D. Pardee, E. H. Bishop, M. D., Charles B. Lines. 

 Hartford County Horticultural Society. — H. W. Teny. 



