STATE HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 47 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. 



Music, piano and violin, by Miss Clark and Miss Mesner. 



The Secretary read a telegram o£ greeting from the Kansas 

 State Horticultural Society, and a letter from the Illinois State 

 Grange, in session at Springfield. 



On motion, H. M. Dunlap and C. N. Dennis were appointed a 

 committee to reply. 



Secretary — As some of us know, Prof. Van Deraan, Chief of 

 the Division of Pomology, who is with us to-day, is trying to arrange 

 a circuit of western State Horticultural Societies, so that the meet- 

 ings of neighboring States will not occur on the same date. This 

 arrangement will bring our meeting the second Tuesday in Decem- 

 ber. I move that we adopt this as the regular time of our annual 

 meeting. Motion adopted. 



XEW APPLES AXD PEARS. 

 BY ARTHUR BRYANT, PRINCETON". 



The subject assigned me is one that will be quite difficult, for 

 any one located in the Northern District (and I shall confine my re- 

 marks to that portion of the State entirely) to treat of, so far as 

 giving any practical results is concerned. 



Attempts have been made in the last few years to test many 

 new varieties, but the wave of destruction to our orchards, that has 

 passed through the western country, has not only taken our old 

 trees that we had top grafted, but most of the young trees that were 

 planted. 



This, with the unfavorable circumstances attending the bloom- 

 ing and fruiting of what few trees we have, gives us but little ma- 

 terial from which to make our report. 



Under these unfavorable circumstances it is with much reluc- 

 tance that I try to occupy a few moments of your time, trusting 

 that my colleague will be able to give you something much more 

 interesting and instructive. 



There are very diverse opinions among those who have given 

 the subject the most attention, and who are supposed to be the best 

 informed as to the cause of the great destruction of our apple or- 

 chards in the Northwest. 



The determination of this point would have much to do with 

 the method and place to look for a remedy. 



