338 TRANSACTIONS OF THE HORTICULTURAL 



active work — mostly on apple-list, insects, blight, and organiza- 

 tion of Northwestern Fruit-Growers' Association. Dr. J. A. Ken- 

 nicott was President. ; R. Avery, E. Harkness, and Dr. L. S. Pen- 

 nington, Vice-presidents; F. K. Phoenix, Corresponding Secre- 

 tary; L. Edwards, Recording Secretary; A. Bryant, Treasurer. 

 The second annual meeting of the N. W. Fruit-Growers' 

 Association was held at the Court House, Dixon, 111., Sep- 

 tember 29 and 30, 1852, with members in attendance from 

 Indiaua, Iowa. Ohio and nineteen counties of Illinois, and large 

 numbers of the citizens of Dixon and vicinity. At the sugges- 

 tion of President Kennicott, a committee was appointed, which 

 reported resolutions of respect and condolence on the recent 

 death of A. J. Downing, "the father of American Pomology — a 

 national calamity." 



Henry Shaw read an able and interesting paper on the educa- 

 tion of the laboring classes for their vocations, which was 

 warmly received, and, on motion of C. R. Overman, a copy was 

 requested for publication. The subject was earnestly and ap- 

 provingly discussed by President Kennicott, F. R. Elliott, E. 

 Harkness, O. B. Galusha and Mr. Huntington. 



President Kennicott made a plea for the organization of a 

 State Board of Agriculture, and a committee was appointed — 

 <D. R. Overman, Dr. L. S. Pennington, A. R. Whitney and 

 Henry Shaw — to attend, as delegates from this Association, the 

 convention to be held at Springfield on the third day of the next 

 session of the Legislature, for the purpose of obtaining action 

 on the subject by the Legislature. 



Arthur Bryant introduced a resolution, and was appointed 

 chairman of a committee, with power to select his associates, to 

 memorialize the Legislature to enact a law making fruit-stealing 

 larceny. 



Most of the time was spent in discussing the list of apples and 

 l>est mode of propagation. Dr. L. S. Pennington, Adnah Wil- 

 liams, Cyrus and Arthur Bryant, and S. Edwards, advocated 

 top-working some varieties of apples as being more hardy and 

 coming into bearing earlier than root-grafts. Mr. Williams was 

 in favor of the mode for general practice — believed that trees 

 worked thus were better worth one dollar each to the planter 

 than to plant root-grafted trees, receiving with them a dollar 

 each as a gratuity. There are, he believed few exceptions to 

 the rule. 



One hundred and ten varieties of apple and some fifty or sixty 

 of pear, a few specimens of peaches and quinces, Catawba, Fox 

 and Isabella grapes, one variety of plum, and one variety of 

 each, gooseberry, raspberry, and strawberry in cans, forty va- 

 rieties of dahlias were exhibited. Dr. J. A. Kennicott was 

 elected president; R. Avery, A. Bryant, W. H. Loomis, vice- 



