The fourteenth annual meeting of this society will be held this time at Reading, about twenty miles from Philadelphia, commencing January 15th, 1873. Some important features are introduced for the first time in this society. Usually much time is lost in preparing business. Here it is all prepared beforehand, and people can come prepared to discuss them, while under the head of new business, any subject not on the programme can be introduced at the option of members present. Among the subjects in order, we note the hedge question, line of planting trees, preparing ground for orchards, profitable management of orchards, manures, new varieties, philosophy of plant life, the whole grape question, the interests of fruit growers, beautifying of grounds, manufacture of fertilizers, ripening and preserving pears, underdraining, weeds and weed laws, sheltering orchards, and so forth. Members are selected to open these questions by a short address. Among the names announced for addresses are those of H. Bartram, Wm. Parry, H. T. Williams, S. W. Noble, Wm. Saunders, Charles H. Miller, A. S. Fuller, F. F. Mereeron, J. S. Stauffer, Tobias Martin, T. M. Harvey, E. Satterthwaite, H. M. Engle, T. B. Jenkins, and Thos. Meehan.

The list of members embrace names from all parts of the Union, as the annual volumn of proceedings is the next best thing to being present personally. The annual fee for membership is two dollars. President, Josiah Hoopes, West Chester; Secretary, W. P. Brinton, Christiana.