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All Societies to be represented, will please forward Certificates of their 

 several Delegations, to the President of the American Pomological Society, 

 at Boston. 



MARSHALL P. WILDER, President. 



H. W. S. CLEVELAND, Secretary. 



UNITED STATES AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The second annual meeting of this society was held at Washington, D. C, 

 on the 22d, 23d, and 24th days of February last. Notwithstanding the 

 fearful snow-storm which delayed many members on their route, and deterred 

 many others from an attempt to attend, twenty-one States were represented 

 at this meeting by an aggregate of over one hundred delegates. 



Addresses were delivered by the President, (the Hon. M. P. Wilder), and 

 others — several valuable papers were read, especially one by Prof. Fox, of 

 the Farmer's Companion, on the means of extending and improving the 

 agricultural population of the United States. 



The following gentlemen were elected officers of the United States Agri- 

 cultural Society for 1854. 



Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, of Mass., President. 



( Vice Presidents, for each State.) 



C. B. Calvert, John A. King, A. L. Elwyn, J. D. Weston, B. P. Poore, 

 A. Watts, John Jones, W. S. King, Executive Committee. 



W. S. King, of Boston, Corresponding and Recording Secretary. 



William Seldun, of Washington, Treasurer. 



Officers of the " Chester County Horticultural Society," elected for the 

 present year. 



President — John Rutter, Esq. 



Vice Presidents — J. H. Bull, Esq., and Dr. George Thomas. 



Recording Secretary — Josiah Hoopes. 



Corresponding Secretary — J. P. Wilson, Esq. 



Treasurer — John Marshall. 



For the Florist and Horticultural Journal. 



THE AILANTHUS TREE. 



At the period of the introduction of this tree into general use in our City,, 

 about twenty years ago, the advantages urged in its favour were, rapid 

 growth, freedom from insects, and an almost simultaneous fall of the leaves, 

 or more properly leaflets, late in the Autumn, thereby securing great clean- 

 liness of walks throughout the summer season. All the advantages claimed 

 have been fully realized, and its dark, rich foliage, and southern habit, ren- 

 dered it a general favorite. The vigorous growth of its long horizontal roots 

 and their tendency to sucker may prove inconvenient in lawns and public 

 squares, but its power or disposition to upheave our pavements is believed to 



