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A. Hunt, Terre Haute, Indiana. The next 
annual meeting will be held at Toronto, 
The National Meeting of Horticultur- 
ists for the World’s Fair. 
At the call of the Illinois State Horticul- 
tural Society, delegates from the horticul- 
tural societies, nurserymen’s, seedmen’s and 
florists’ associations and kindred organiza- 
tions of the United States, met at the Sher- 
man House, Chicago, 111 , on Aug. 27th last, 
to consider and take actiou on the best meth- 
ods of properly representing the horticultur- 
al interests of the country at the World’s 
Columbian Exposition in 1893, and to form- 
ulate and devise plans for making the hor- 
ticultural department of that Exposition 
so complete as to be the pride of our own 
people and the admiration of the assembled 
nations. 
The following officers were elected: S. M. 
k Emery, President; C. L.Watrous, Vice-Pres- 
ident; H. B. Beatty, Secretary and Treas- 
urer; and G. H. Grant, Assistant Secretary. 
Mr. Albaugh of Iowa advocated the ap- 
pointing or election of some practical hor- 
ticulturist to be urged upon the National 
Commissioners for the World’s Fair as Sup- 
erintendent of the Department of Horticul- 
ture. He also urged that others be elected 
to superintend the divisions of horticulture. 
Joseph Lannin. of Michigan, said that Pres- 
ident Palmer of the National Commission 
had written him that there would be a De- 
partment of Agriculture and also one of 
Horticulture under distinct and separate 
heads. 
Mr. Hoxie of Wisconsin moved to proceed 
to select persons recommended for appoint- 
ment to the following positions: First, a 
Commissioner of Horticulture; second, four 
Superintendents of theDepartments of Flori- 
culture, Pomology, Nursery, and Forestry, 
and Seeds and Vegetables. 
Parker Earle of Mississippi was nominat- 
«. ed for Commissioner of Horticulture. He 
was Chief of Horticulture at New Orleans 
at the Exposition, and is President of the 
American Horticultural Society. 
G. D. Bracket of Iowa was elected by ac- 
clamation as Superintendent of Pomology. 
J. B. Reynolds of Chicago was elected by 
acclamation as Superintendent of Floricul- 
ture and Landscape Gardening in the Hor- 
ticultural Department. 
A committee was appointed to prepare a 
memorial to present to the National Com- 
mission on their meeting Oct. 8. The fol- 
lowing gentlemen form the committee: E. 
G. Hill, S. M. Emery, Edgar Sanders, H. B. 
Beatty, and A . C. Hammond. 
Horace J. Newberry otfered this resolu- 
tion in regard to the name of the society: 
Resolved, That this organization be known as the Col. 
umbian Horticultural Association, and that the Advis- 
ory Executive Committee consist of the President, Sec- 
retary, and Treasurer, and Messrs. Parker Earle, G. D. 
Brackett, James D. Reynolds, J. C. Vaughan, and Geo. 
^ B. Thomas, and that the association remain an active 
organization until the close of the World’s Columbian 
Exposition, and that all elected officers be permanent 
until same expiration. 
Carried. The association adjourned to 
meet at the call of the President. 
The Late Patrick Barry. 
Mr. Barry was born near Belfast, Ireland, 
in 1816, the son of an Iiish farmer, and 
came to this country in 1836. He soon ob- 
tained a position with Messrs. Prince & Co. , 
the nurserymen, at Flushing, Long Island, 
in whose employ he remained four years. 
He then removed to Rochester, where, in 
partnership with George Ellwanger, he es- 
tablished the now well known Mount Hope 
Nurseries. The firm entered largely into 
the importation of stock from abroad and 
by its enterprise and good judgment ex- 
tended its business until its nurseries have 
become famous. 
Mr. Barry is widely known as a pomolo- 
gist, nurseryman and author. He edited 
The Genesee Farmer from 1844 to 1852, and 
The Horticulturist from 1852 to 1854. In 
1852 his popular “Barry’s Fruit Garden” 
was published, and a new and carefully re- 
vised edition of it was issued in 1885. He 
was a well known and welcome contributor 
to the leading horticultural and pomological 
journals, and a careful and sound writer. 
The Catalogue of the American Pomolog- 
cal Society has been his greatest work, how- 
ever, its preparation having fallen upon 
him as chairman of the Committee. The 
immense value and importance of this work 
as a guide to fruit growers is well known to 
all pomologists The Western New York 
Horticultural Society knew and loved him 
as its president for more than twenty years, 
and the Society felt and acknowledged the 
influence of his presence and power by be- 
coming one of the most useful and valuable 
of its kind in the country. Few horticul 
tural societies have held more interesting 
and valuable meetings or diffused such a 
wide influence for good as has that of West- 
ern New 7 York under the leadership of Pres- 
ident Barry. At his home in Rochester, N. 
Y., he held many civic offices of trust, and 
was always foremost in every project for 
the advancement of the city’s welfare. For 
some time he was president of the N. Y. 
State Agricultural Society and a member of 
the Board of Control of the N. Y. State Ag- 
ricultural Experiment Station. 
Mr. Barry’s character was a strong one; 
there was nothing of faltering or indecision 
about him. Straightforward and honorable 
in all things he always went forward ; of the 
utmost integrity and scorning trickery of 
every kind and in every degree. 
His death occurred, as briefly noted at the 
time in Orchard and Garden, at his home 
on June 23d last. His wife, three sons and 
a daughter survive him. 
We call the attention of advertisers to 
the value of Orchard & Garden as an ad- 
vertising medium. For those seeking trade 
among fruit-growers, and the owners of 
country homes there is none better in the 
United States. Try it 

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