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shall endeavor to make the times not conflict with other meetings^ 

 and shall be glad to see our furmers and friends present. ■ 



Mr. Baldwin — Mr. Bowman, the artist of OttaM'a, would bo glad 

 to take pictures of this assembly. As you pass out he will take 

 pictures of us on the steps of the court house, so as to immortalize us. 



Mr. Flagg — This Societ}' has now been organized 13 years. We 

 have had a number of eminent men as presidents, and I think it 

 would be interesting to future members of the Society, and certainl}' 

 it would be to us, to have the pictures of them all. I therefore move 

 that the ex-presidents of this Society be requested to furnish the 

 Secretarj' with their photographs, and that he be authorized to 

 procure a photograph album for them. 



Carried. 



Dr. Schroeder — I move that we do now adjourn until 2 o'clock. 



The motion prevailed, and the meeting stood adjourned. 



THIED DAY— AFTEENOON SESSION. 



The Society met pursuant to adjournment. President MeWhorter 

 in the chair. 

 . Mr. Dunlap submitted a report from the 



COMMITTEE ON NEW FRUITS. 



Champaign, Ills., December, 1SG9. 

 Saml. Edwards, Chairman oj the Committee : — The imderisigued, one of the members 

 of the Committee on Selection of New Fruits, would respectfully report that, of the 

 small fruits, I have in course of trial the following : 



KITTATINNY BLACKBERRY. 



Have had it two- winters, and thus tar proves hardy, but as the Lawton is equally 

 hardy at this point, that fact determines nothing for points north of this, and in 

 grounds not sheltered, my smafl-fruit grounds being sheltered by belts of forest trees 

 thirty feet high. 



The season of the Kittatinny appears to be about the same of the Lawton, though 

 the main crop ripens more freely in the early part of the season. The mode of training 



