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practically all the fruit growing States. The only State of much importance 
that has failed to furnish a report is New York. I have reports from all of 
New England and from nearly all the Northern states. A few western states 
have for various reasons been unable to furnish a report, but they have 
promised to do so in a few days. 
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MEMORIALS. 
Mr. P. J. Berckmans, from the Committee on Memorials, presented and 
read the report of that Committee as follows: 
The members of the American Pomological Society are called at every 
Biennial Session to record their grief at the departure of co-laborers in the 
science and art which this organization was established to perpetuate, and 
this Committee regret that the number of pioneers in Horticulture who 
have fallen since the last Session is unusually large. The Society has to 
mourn the death of three of the most prominent cultivators of the grape, who 
were loved and honored for their characters and labors. 
George W. Campbell, Delaware, Ohio, for many years past the efficient Vice 
President from Ohio, and late the First Vice President of this Society; the 
introducer of the Delaware and unwearied improver of the grape 1 , whose 
new and valuable varieties form a more appropriate and enduring monument 
to his memory than any testimonial that this Committee can indite; 
Isidor Bush, Bushberg, Mo., whose exhaustive “Bushberg Catalogue” forms 
an equally appropriate monument to his memory; 
Benjamin G. Smith, Cambridge, Mass., for many years the efficient Treas- 
urer of the Society, whose zeal in the cultivation of the grape is evidenced by 
his exhibition before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, on his eightieth 
birthday, of sixty varieties of native grapes grown by him; 
Edmond H. Hart, Federal Point, Fla., esteemed and valued by his friends, 
has left a vacancy in the ranks of the pioneers in the improvement of citrus 
fruits in Florida, which will long be seen and felt; 
Harrison Reed, Jacksonville, Fla., for four and a half years Governor of 
Florida, who also edited the “Semi Tropical Magazine,” in which he labored 
earnestly to advance the pomological interests of his State; 
William Parry, Parry, N. J., who will long be remembered for his efforts in 
the introduction of nut bearing trees of many kinds; 
Frederick Smyth, Manchester, N. H., for many years State Vice President 
of the Society for New Hampshire, who was four times mayor of his city 
and twice Governor of his State, holding many important public positions, 
among them that of Commissioner from the United States to the Paris Ex- 
position of 1878; 
A. A. Crozier, Ann Arbor, Mich., Secretary of this Society from 1887 to 1891, 
and author of numerous valuable contributions to horticultural literature; 
George S. Conover, Geneva, N. Y., A. M. Lawver, San Francisco, California, 
introducer of the Lawyer apple; J. M. Samuels, Clinton, Ky., Superintendent 
of Horticulture at the Columbian Exposition, and R. Maitre, New Orleans, 
La., deserve the respect of their co-laborers in this Society for their faithful 
efforts to promote its objects. 
For the loss of all these associates the members of the Society express their 
sorrow and sincere sympathy with those nearer and dearer to them, who 
