THE WESTERN NEW YORK Horticultural Society. PROCEEDINGS OF THE Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting, HELD AT ROCHESTER, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, JAN. 25 AND 26, 1893. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE DAVIS 1893. POST-EXPRESS PRINTING COMPANY, ROCHESTER, N. Y. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE I. This Association shall be entitled the "Fruit Growers' Society of Western New York," and its object shall be the advancement of the science of Pomology and the Art of Fruit Culture generally. ARTICLE II. It shall embrace in its sphere of operation the counties of Chautauqua, Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus, Orleans, Genesee, Allegany, Monroe, Livingston, Steuben, Ontario, Wayne, Yates, Seneca, Chemung, Tompkins, Cayuga, Oswego, Tioga, Onondaga and Cortland. ARTICLE III. Any person may become a member of the Society by paying into the treasury the sum of one dollar. The payment of ten dollars or more at one time will constitute a life membership. ARTICLE IV. Its officers shall consist of a President, Vice-President, a Secretary and Treasurer, all of whom shall be elected annually by ballot. ARTICLE V. The following standing committees shall be appointed annually: An Executive Committee, a Committee on Nomenclature, a Committee on American Fruits, and a Committee on Foreign Fruits, to consist of five members each, and a General Fruit Committee, to consist of three members from each county represented in the Society, with a general chairman of the whole. ARTICLE VI. The officers of the Society, together with the Executive Committee, shall constitute the Council, which shall have the general management of the affairs of the Society during its recess, and of which seven members, including the President or one of the VicePresidents, shall form a quorum for the transaction of business. ARTICLE VII. This constitution may be amended by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any regular meeting, notice of the proposed amendment having been previously given. BY-LAWS. 1. The Committee on Nomenclature shall collate and decide the standard and synonymous names of all fruits known to the Society, with the authorities for each, and report so far as practicable at each regular meeting. 2. The Committees on American Fruits and Foreign Fruits shall, in their respective departments, examine, test and classify such new fruits as may, in a natural state, come under their notice, and report at each regular meeting. The Committee on American Fruits will, in the consideration of new seedlings, be guided by the rules of Pomology as adopted by the New York State Agricultural Society. 3. The General Fruit Committee shall carefully and thoroughly investigate the subject of Fruit Culture in general. Each local committee of three shall collect such useful and interesting information in relation to the subject as may be in their power, and embody the same in a monthly report, to be made to the General Chairman, such report to be by him examined and embodied in his annual or semi-annual report. 4. The annual meeting of the Society shall be held on the fourth Wednesday in January of each year, in such place as the Council may appoint, at which time the annual election of officers shall be held, an exhibition and discussion of fruits take place and other business transacted. 5. Other meetings may be convened by the Council, at such time and places as they may appoint. 6. No member who is in arrears for dues shall be eligible to any office, or serve on any Standing Committee; and any member who shall neglect to pay his dues shall cease to enjoy the privileges of membership. * Name changed in 1870, to "The Western New York Horticultural Society," by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. Name changed to "New York State Horticultural Society" in 1888. The name adopted in 1870 was resumed in 1889. OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES. President-Wм. C. BARRY, Rochester. Vice-Presidents-S. D. WILLARD, Geneva; WING R. SMITH, Syracuse; GEO. Secretary and Treasurer-JOHN HALL, 406 Wilder Building, Rochester. Chemistry-DR. G. C. CALDWELL, Ithaca; DR. S. A. LATTIMORE, Rochester; Entomology-DR. J. A. LINTNER, Albany; PROF. J. A. COMSTOCK, Ithaca; C. M. HOOKER, Rochester; J. F. ROSE, South Byron; R. J. HEWSON, Penn Yan; C. H. STUART, Newark. Foreign Fruits-GEORGE ELLWANGER, Rochester, C. W. STUART, Newark; JOHN CHARLTON, Rochester; GEO. G. ATWOOD, Geneva; GEO. H. MOODY, Lockport. Flowers and Bedding Plants-CHARLES LITTLE, Rochester; VIRGIL BOGUE, Albion; W. H. SMITH, Rochester; E. A. LONG, Buffalo; C. W. SEELYE, Rochester; C. H. PERKINS, Newark; PATRICK QUINLAN, Syracuse. Garden Vegetables—Prof. H. H. WING, Geneva; C. H. PERKINS, Newark; C. E. HUNN, Geneva; J. M. MERSEREAU, Cayuga; E. S. HAYWARD, Rochester. Grapes and Small Fruits—C. M. HOOKER, Rochester; I. D. Cook, South Byron; MR. ULSNER, Syracuse; FRANK LEWIS, Lockport; GEO. S. JOSSELYN, Fredonia. Native Fruits-JOHN J. THOMAS, Union Springs; W. C. BARRY, Rochester; L. WOOLVERTON, Grimsby, Ontario; A. M. SMITH, St. Catharines, Ontario; E. A. BRONSON, Geneva; PROFESSOR L. H. BAILEY, Ithaca. Nomenclature-W. C. BARRY, Rochester; J. J. THOMAS, Union Springs; HON. H. E. VAN DEMAN, Washington, D. C.; S. D. WILLARD, Geneva; D. BOGUE, Medina. Ornamental Trees and Shrubs-GEORGE ELLWANGER, Rochester; GEO. G. ATWOOD, Geneva; JOHN CHARLTON, W. S. LITTLE, ROBERT ADES, Rochester. Ornithology-CHAS. A. GREEN. Rochester; PROF. J. H. LANGVILLE, Washington, D. C.; DR. C. HART MERRIAM, Washington, D. C. |