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Introductory. 
In issuing this brief synopsis of the work of the recent Conven- 
vention, the Executive Committee think best to so present tlie 
matter that interested persons who were not present may form a 
fairly elear idea of the eliaracter of the meeting and the business 
therein transaeted. It is expected that a full report of the conven¬ 
tion will be issued by the Department of Agrieultijre. 
The Convention was fairly national in regard to representation, 
and was composed of accredited delegates of Horticultural Socie¬ 
ties, Nurserymen’s Associations, State Agricultural Boards, 
Granges, Alliances, and Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 
Stations. 
The roll of delegates as pi’esented by the Committee on Cre¬ 
dentials and adopted by the Convention is here appended: 
J. H. Halk, South Glastonbury, Conn., President Connecticut Poniological Society. 
William 11. Sessions, Boston, MiufS., Secretary State Board of Agriculture. 
D. Demarest Denise, Freehold, N. J., President of the New Jersey State Board of 
Agriculture. 
B. T. Galloway, Washington, D. C., Chief of the Division of Vegetable Physiology 
and Pathology, United States Department of Agriculture. 
-M. B. W.viTB, Wiishington, D. C., Assistant Pathologist, Division of Vegetable 
Physiology and Pathology, United States Department of Agriculture. 
W. AV. Farnsworth, AVuterville, Ohio, Secretary Ohio State Horticultural Society. 
S. A. Beach, Geneva, N. Y., State Experiment Station, New York. 
H. E. Van Deman, Parksley, Virginia, Pre.sident Peninsula Horticultural Society. 
William B. Alwood, Blacksburg, Ya., Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station 
and State Horticultural Society. 
H. Garman, Lexington, Ky., Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station and State 
Horticultural Society. 
L. O. Howard, Washington, D. C., Entomologist, United States Department of 
Agriculture. 
M. V. Slinobrland, Ithaca, N. Y., Cornell University and Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station. 
Wesley Wbhh, Dover, Del., Farmers’ Institute of Delaware and Secretary Penin¬ 
sula Horticultural Society. 
Otto Lhoqer, St. Anthony Park, Minn., Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station 
and State Horticultural Society. 
J. Van Lindley, Pomona, N. C., President North Carolina Horticultural Society. 
Gerald McCarthy, Kaleigh, N. C., Secretary North Carolina Horticultural Society, 
Entomologist North Carolina Experiment Station. 
M. .1. Daniels, Riveraide, Cal., State Board of Horticulture. 
.S. B. Heiobs, Washington, D. C., Pomologist, United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture, President Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 
W. W. Miller, Columbus, Ohio, Secretary State Board of Agriculture. 
V. H. Lowe, Geneva, N. Y., Entomologist New York Agricultural E.xperiraent 
Station. 
