Proceedings of the Second Congress of Fruit Growers

Download or read book Proceedings of the Second Congress of Fruit Growers written by National Convention of Fruit Growers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the Second Congress of Fruit Growers: Convened Under the Auspices of the American Institute, in the City of New-York, 1849 The president then said he was happy to meet, this morning, so many delegates in attendance, with whom he had the pleasure of shaking hands last year, and he was very happy also to meet the new delegates - gentlemen who had come up from various quarters, some of them from the far West, to aid in the deliberations of the Congress, and assist, by their knowledge and experience, in the effort to promote the spread of Pomological Science in the country. The field was a wide one, and no doubt it would be well filled. But he would not take'up any more of the time of the Congress by remarks of his own, since it was already past the hour when it should have assembled, and it was important to proceed to business. I The Secretaries had in their hands certificates and credentials from various parts of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.