This body meets only biennially. The next session will be held in Philadelphia on the 12th, 13th and 14th of September, 1883.

President Wilder is working hard to make this meeting one long to be remembered, in which effort he is seconded by President Schaffer of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

We have several letters from friends referring to the coming meeting of this distinguished body in September. Col. Wilder expects to be present in person, and is full of enthusiasm at the prospect of again meeting his many friends. The circulars giving details have recently been issued.

Essays to be read at the meeting in Philadelphia, on September 12th to 14th. The following named gentlemen (the list is alphabetically arranged) will prepare papers: - Hon. P. J. Berckmans, President of the Georgia Horticultural Society; Prof. T. J. Burrill, Illinois Industrial University, on Diseases of Plants; Prof. J. L. Budd, Iowa Agricultural College, on Experimental Horticulture west of the Lakes; Col. N. J. Colman, Editor of the Rural World, Missouri, on Utilizing our Fruits; Prof. J. Henry Comstock, Cornell University, on Insects of the Orchard; Dr. W. G. Farlow, Professor of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University, on Ure-dineae (rusts and mildews); Charles A. Green, Editor of the Fruit Grower, on Certainties and Uncertainties; Samuel Hape, Esq., Atlanta, Geo., on the Effect of the Evening Sun on Fruit Trees; Byron D. Halsted, D. Sc, Editor of the American Agriculturist, on Fungi; Josiah Hoopes, Ex-President of Fruit Growers' Society of Pennsylvania, on Peach Culture in Pennsylvania; Prof. W. R. Lanzenby, Ohio State University, on Dichogomy in Cultivated Plants; i. e., noting examples where the stamens of a flower mature before the stigmas, or the stigmas before the stamens; Hon. T. T. Lyon, President Michigan State Horticultural Society, on How can we best maintain a high standard of quality in fruits, as against the tendencies of commercial pomology; J. C. Plumb, Milton, Wisconsin; Prof. C. V. Riley, U. S. Entomologist, on Recent advances in Horticultural Entomology; Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant, Director of the New York Experiment Station, on Some things the Station can do for Horticulture; Prof. S. M. Tracy, Missouri University, Secretary of the Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society.

Referring to the forthcoming session of the American Pomological Society, which commences at Philadelphia, Wednesday, September 12th, Marshall P. Wilder writes : " I notice with pleasure that you keep the American Pomological Society before the public. The meeting will be a grand one. Delegations are being reported from many States and Societies. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society sends twenty-five, Rhode Island, ten, and New England will come on in full force. Nova Scotia and Canada are in the field, and the South and West will come in with full representations. So the good work goes on. So may it ever prosper, and our land continue to be the most remarkable for its fruits as it is for its love of liberty and human rights."