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less prove valuable in Texas and New Mcxieo. Some of these will 

 prove to be good keepers in Kansas and Nebraska, while some ot 

 them are of inlinitely better quality than Ben Davis. Most of our 

 eultivated cherries are from the South nf l'Jir(ij)e, and are not to 

 say successful in the Mississippi valley. Our lOarly Richmond and 

 Kentish are of the Montmorency family. Theie are cherries on 

 the dry east ])]ains of Europe that would do well with us. Some 

 of these resemble our Morellos, and are found in large quantities. 

 They are grown on small bushes but little larger than currant 

 bushes, and are produced in such quantities that they load trains 

 with them. There are none of them so jxior as Karly Richmond. 

 At "Warsaw the Flemish Beauty pear is abundant. East and north- 

 east this variety disappears and you find a mixture with the wild 

 pear, a forest tree in Russia. In quality some of these crosses equal 

 Bessemianka, resembling the Flemish Beauty in leaf and tree, but 

 will stand a temperature of — 4o° without injury. It is seedless, and 

 this indicates its hybrid character, the cross being so violent as to 

 take the seeds out. On the A^'olga we find the Bergamotts, with 

 leaves like the Sand pears. In point of hardiness they equal tln^ 

 Anis and Oldenberg apples. Pears from St. Petersburg and the 

 Baltic would blight with us as quick as the Flemish Beauty, Mhile 

 it is probable that these Bergamotts from the east plain would resist 

 this disease. If the varieties of fruits introduced from Russia are 

 not of themselves valuable in this country may we not hope to 

 find among their seedlings those adapted to our varying tastes and 

 necessities? 



Mr. Jessup, of California — I will ask Prof. Budd to except Cali- 

 fornia from his sweeping criticism of our country for cherry grow- 

 ing. We in California have liai'Vfstcd as niuch as seventeen 

 hundred (1,700) pounds of cherries from one tree, and from ten 

 acres seventy-six thousand (70,000) pounds have been produced in 

 a single season. 



Mr. Onjxcnod, of New York — I am satisfied that we must harden 

 up our varieties of fruits by crossing them with the Russian sorts. 



Mr. Van Deman — I only speak for our State when I assert that we 

 can do better than to cultivate any of the Russian aj)j)les with which 

 I am acquainted. 



