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usual addresses were delivered and the Annual Committee Reports w ere read and 
disposed of, while other Committees were organized for the ensuing year, after 
which the session adjourned to meet in Club Room No. 4, Grand Pacific Hotel, where 
the future sessions were held. The morning session of the second day found an in- 
creased interest in the proceedings, also an increased number in attendance Among 
the papers presented were: 
The Influence of Phylloxera on American Grape Vines — IsadorBush, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 
Humbugs in Horticulture — Peter Henderson, New York. 
Tree Peddlers — Prof. Geo. Husman, Columbia, Missouri. 
Protection of Trees from the Sun — Charles D. Zimmerman, Buffalo, New York. 
The Duties of Nurserymen in Propagating Varieties — Suel Foster, Muscatine, 
Iowa. 
The following officers were elected for 1880-1: President, N. H. Albaugh, Tad- 
more, Ohio; First Vice President, G. B. Brackett, Denmark, Iowa; Secretary, D. W. 
Scott. Galena, Illinois; Treasurer, A. R. Whitney, Franklin Grove, Illinois. Dayton, 
Ohio, was selected as the place for the next meeting, and the third Wednesday in 
June, 1S81, the date. The day was spent very profitably to all the members, and the 
following one was devoted to an excursion to the parks and other places of interest, 
after which the Association ad journed sine die. 
THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
At the late meeting of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, at which delegates 
from several States were present, it was resolved to take steps looking forward to 
the organization of such a Society as is named above, and a Committee was appointed 
to arrange preliminaries, and to invite the Horticulturists to meet in convention, 
when, by their united counsels, most liberal things may be devised and executed. 
After due consultation, the gentlemen named below have decided to call a con- 
vention to meet in St. Louis, on Wednesday, the 8th day of September, next, at 9 
o’clock a. m.,and to continue for three days. The meeting is to be held in the large 
hall of the Merchants’ Exchange Building, which that city claims to be “ the finest 
hall in America.” It is assuredly large and fine enough for the purpose, and, with 
the extraordinary backing which this new enterprise has, it cannot fail to be a mam- 
moth affair, arid fruit-growers everywhere in the West will be glad to learn of this 
thing. We find considerable enthusiasm already in that city in view of this forth- 
coming exhibition of fruits, plants and flowers. The following are the gentlemen, 
prominent in Horticultural circles, many of them officers of State Associations, who 
have signed the call for the convention : 
Norman J. Coleman, J. C. Evans, S. M. Tracy, Missouri ; S. H. Nowlin, C. C. 
Smith, J. B. Hoag, Arkansas; Parker Earle, O. B. Galusha, J. E. Starr, Illinois;!'. 
V. Munson, H. Tone, Texas ; W. H. Ragan, Indiana; T. J. Lyon, C. W. Garfield, 
Michigan; J. M. Smith, Wisconsin; C. L. Watrous, J. L. Budd, Iowa: M. W. Phil- 
lips, Mississippi ; R. W. Furnas, D. II. Wheeler, Nebraska; J. M. Morton, Tennessee; 
E. E. Gale, Kansas; J. T. Grimes, Minnesota; H. W. L. Lewis, Louisiana. 
The purpose of this organization is to serve the interests of Pomology, Forestry, 
and Floriculture, and thus serve the interests of the people generally, without regard 
to locality. The Premium List is a most important item, and we give it here in full. 
The amount of premiums to be given is $2,500, — and who will say they are not liberal ? 
Mr. Parker Earle, of Cobden, President of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, 
is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of this new organization, and Mr. S. 
M. Tracy, of St. Louis, Secretary of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, is the 
Secretary of this Society. Further information on the subject will be given by the 
Secretary, by addressing COO Olive street, St. Louis, Mo. 
MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society have recently issued in a neat little 
32-page pamphlet their Schedule of Prizes for their Exhibitions for 1880, which con- 
sist of an Azalia and Rose exhibition March IS; Pelargonium exhibition May 8; 
Rhododendrons, June 15; Roses. June 22; Strawberries, June 2S; an annual exhi- 
bition of Fruit, Flowers and Vegetables, September 14 to 17 ; Autumn Fruit, October 
2; Apples, Pears, Chrysanthemums and other flowers, November 10. The prizes to 
be given at these exhibitions are $3,050 in cash, while $75 is also appropriated for the 
best essay (subject for discussion to be furnished by the Society). 
