Report of Officers 
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REPORT OF AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL MEETING 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 
Although the programme calls for “Re¬ 
port of American Pomological Meeting,” 
it is not my purpose to go into details o>f 
the very interesting and well attended 
meeting, held at St. Catherines, Ontario, 
Canada, September 14-16, 1909, but 
rather to call your attention to the out¬ 
come of that meeting, as far as decision 
on the place for the next one was con¬ 
cerned. 
There were present at the meeting 
fourteen members from Florida, includ¬ 
ing the president, secretary, treasurer 
and one member of the executive com¬ 
mittee of the Florida State Horticultural 
Society; and we deemed that we had 
sufficient official representation to war¬ 
rant us in inviting the American Pomo¬ 
logical Society to hold its next conven¬ 
tion in this state. Such an invitation was 
duly presented by President Hume, and 
seconded by all of the officers of our 
society present, and the American Po¬ 
mological Society took the matter under 
advisement. As is customary with that 
society, the final decision as to place of 
meeting was left to its executive com¬ 
mittee. 
In March of this year, Professor John 
Craig, Secretary of the American Po¬ 
mological Society, met with the Exec¬ 
utive Committee of the Florida State 
Horticultural Society in Jacksonville, 
and informed us that our invitation had 
been accepted, and it was decided that the 
American Pomological Society would 
hold its next session in Florida in the 
latter part of January, 1911, and that 
the place of meeting should be left to 
the Executive Committee of the Flor¬ 
ida State Horticultural Society. 
Except as being held late in January, 
the exact date at which the meeting 
should be held has not been fixed, and 
this, perhaps, had better be left to the 
Executive Committee of this society, de¬ 
pendent somewhat upon the dates that 
will suit our visitors best. I have, there¬ 
fore, to announce that the meeting of the 
American Pomological Society will be 
held in such place in Florida as this so¬ 
ciety may select, some time in January, 
1911. Not only will the American Po¬ 
mological Society meet with us, but the 
Executive Committee of the Florida 
State Horticultural Society deems it 
proper that this society should sanction 
the extending of special invitations to 
other southern horticultural societies, to 
meet with us at that lime, and, with this 
end in view, I wish to submit the follow¬ 
ing: 
