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We also recommend the coutiuuance of the committee appointed for the purpose 

 of testing and reporting officially on new fruits . The continual flooding of the country 

 with such unmitigated humbugs as the Mexican Ever-bearing Strawberry and the 

 "Mammoth Cluster Raspberry (probably humbug only in name), and many others, 

 shoiild have some estopper ]5ut upon it. Although we are well aware that this society 

 has done well nigh its full duty in the premises, we would further recommend that it 

 be the duty of the State Horticulturist to visit parties offering new varieties in their 

 fruiting season, as far as practicable, and report officially thereon. 



"We would also recommend that this Society devote more time to the discussion 

 of vegetable physiology or structural botany, and the cultivation proper of our 

 orchards, and adaptation of diflerent soils to profitable ft'uit growing, and the i)roper 

 drainage of the same, and less to the revision of the fruit lists. 



Fruit Districts — We recommend a Special Committee, of which the Secretary be 

 Chairman. I). B. WIER, Chairman. 



Mr. Furnas — I would like to know whether the Mammoth Easp- 

 berry is one of those fruits that you call humbugs ? 



Mr. Wier — We have another of the same kind that is pretty well 

 known in the West. I ara speaking of the Minnesota. It has been 

 known for years. 



Mr. Daggy — I move that the report be accepted and the committee 

 discharged. 



Mr. Foster — About that Mexican Ever-bearing Strawberry ? I do 

 not know but that much of the humbugging has been done by 

 editors. 



Motion carried. 



Mr. Galusha — ^I move that half an hour be devoted to the discus- 

 sion of topics contained in the report. Carried. 



Mr. Wier — I think the discussion on the Mexican Ever-bearing 

 Strawberry would more properly come up with the report of the 

 Special Committee on iSTew Fruits. 



Mr. Flagg — The first subject in the report is the matter of 

 "drought as being remedied by mulching, deep sub-soil plowing, and 

 timber planting." 



" Underdraining and mulching recommended, and in some cases 

 grass and mulching, to prevent washing." 



The President — I will mention one little matter in regard to wash- 

 ing. I think it is an excellent plan, with any horticulturist who is 



