284 THE FLORIST AND 



President Wilder made the following happy response to the last reso- 

 lution : 



Gentlemen : — The resolution which you have just adopted awakens in 

 me feelings of gratitude and affection. The interest which I have ever felt 

 in the prosperity of this Association, has induced me to accept of your 

 suffrages, and to occupy the chair for another term. 



I beg to tender you my grateful acknowledgments for your co-operation 

 and support, and to assure you of my unabated interest in the objects of 

 the Society, and in your personal welfare. May you go on, prospering and 

 to prosper, and when we have done cultivating the fruits of earth, may we 

 have the unspeakable felicity to meet in celestial fields, and gather ambro- 

 sial fruits from the Tree of Life. 



There being no more business before the convention, it adjourned at a 

 quarter past two o'clock, to meet in Rochester, N. Y., in September, 1856. 



PITTSBURG HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



LIST OF PREMIUMS. 



The Committee on Fruits, beg leave to offer the following report as their 

 award of premiums : 



APPLES. 



Best six fall varieties, five of each, William Cummings, - - $4 00 



Best three fall varieties, three of each, Thomas Harrison, - 2 00 



Best five fall varieties, three of each, Hugh McCarty, gardener 

 for D. Holmes, ------- 



Best six winter varieties, five of each, William Cummings, 

 Best two winter varieties, five of each, George McHattie, gar- 

 dener to C. Spang, ------ 



Best three winter varieties, three of each, Thomas Dickson, 

 Second best winter varieties, three of each, James George, 

 Best large collection, five of each, A. W. Marks, - 

 Second best large collection, five of each, W. & J. Murdock, 

 Third best large collection, five of each, Bockstoce & Ammon, 



GRAPES. 



Best half peck Isabella, Bockstoce & Ammon, , - . • - 



Second best half peck Isabella, Gregory Fearer, - 



Best three bunches Isabella, Bockstoce & Ammon, 



Best half peck Catawba, Gregory Fearer, t. 



Second " " C. L. Goehring, - - - - 



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