Report Annual Session of the Virginia State Horticultural Society (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Virginia State Horticultural Society Organized March 3D, 1897. Incorporated March Tth, 1900. ACT OF INCORPORATION Acts of Assembly of Legislature of Virginia. Chap. 9S5?An ACT to incorporate the Virginia State Horticultural Society, and to define its powers and duties. Approved March 7, 1900. Whereas the fruit-growers' interests of Virginia are of great and growing importance, comprising one of the most important sources of the wealth of the State, and bringing annually to her people more money from beyond the borders of the State and furnishing more employment to the people of the State than any other one industry; therefore, 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the Virginia State Horticultural Society, -as at present organized, is hereby created a body corporate under the style and name of the Virginia State Horticultural Society, and that to the same is granted in perpetuity all the privileges, powers, and rights of corporations under the general laws of this State. 2. The objects and purposes of this Society shall be to foster and encourage the horticultural interests of the State by conducting experimental work to illustrate scientific methods in horticulture, and by holding public meetings and exhibitions in the several sections thereof for the- presentation of reports, exhibits, papers, and discussions dealing with all phases of horticulture in this State. 3. For the purpose of carrying into immediate effect the objects above stated, the following persons who constitute the present officers and directors of said Society shall be the officers and the board of directors of the Virginia State Horticultural Society: Samuel B. Woods, president; A. F. Mosby, first vice-president; J. B. Watkins, second vice-president; W. H. Boaz, t...