Transactions at the Annual Meeting. 129 



Thursday, February 3, 7 P. M. 



A business session was called to bear reports of committees. 



Fruit ox Exhibition. — The committee appointed to examine 

 and report on the fruit exhibited presented the following : 



Members of the Slate Horticultural Society : Your committee 

 have endeavored to perform the various duties assigned them, 

 and now present the following as the result of their labors. The 

 display of fruit is very large and fine, much the largest and best 

 ever seen at a winter exhibition in the state. The list here given 

 embraces most of the varieties represented, but among such a 

 large number of plates some were necessarily overlooked. Beside 

 these, there were a large number of seedlings and varieties to be 

 named. 



Jonathan, Wealthy, Fall Sweet, Alexander, Autumn Straw- 

 berry, Colvert, Flower of Genesee, White Pippin, Peck's Pleas- 

 ant, Fall Spitzenberg, Twenty Ounce, Victuals and Drink, Smoke 

 House, Belle Pippin, Belleilower, Northern Sweet, Fallawater, 

 Paradise, Gray Vandervere, Weaver Sweet, Bailey Sweet, Sweet 

 Pear, Hartford Sweet, Clyde's Beauty, Green Sweet, Hightop 

 Sweet, Piatt's Favorite, Belmont, Vandervere, Mammoth. Pippin, 

 Gillflower, Lawver, May Seek-No-Further, Black, Pomme Grise, 

 Perry Russet, Smith's Cider, Miuckler, Red Romanite, Clark's 

 Orange, Greening, Clark's Winter, Westfield Seek-no-further, 

 Fameuse, Pewaukee, Willow Twig, Green-Everlasting, Wal- 

 bridge, Golden Russet, Drap d'Or, Haas, Plumb's Cider, Northern 

 Spy, Ben Davis, Herfordshire Pearmain, Rawle's Janet, White 

 Winter Pearmain, Stark, Swaar, Gloria Mundi, Wagner, Red 

 Romanite, Red Detroit, Ruddock's Northern Blush, Thomas' 

 Winter Pippin, Schockly, Leitch, Hill's Seedlings, Barrett Rus- 

 set, Limber Twig, Penncck and Winesap. 



Not to discriminate, your committee would mention the ex- 

 hibits of Messrs. Hunt, Jeffrey, Philips, Kellogg, Olds, Plumb, 

 Peffer and Hirschinger, as large in the number of varieties and 

 fine in quality of fruit. 



There are on exhibition quite a large number of seedlings and 

 new varieties, some of which seem to possess much merit and may 

 prove valuable acquisitions to our list of fruits. Among these we 

 9 — Hort. 



