48 TKANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



This report was adopted but was objected to by some as recommend- 

 ing some varieties that would not stand the exposure on the prairies, 

 although good in favorable localities, and being too extended. 

 Southern, Summer: Duchess, Red Astrachan and Whitney. Fall: 

 Lowell, Fall Orange, Wealthy and Famuse. Winter: Roman Stem, 

 Grimes' Golden, White Pippen, Ben Davis, Janet, Jonathan and 

 Willow. Now please remember that these reports are all from a 

 latitude quite a number of miles north of where we are to-day, and 

 an almost entirely prairie country. They have suifered severely but 

 are not disheartened, and are offering magnificent premiums for 

 new, good and hardy varieties. Plums: Miner, DeSoto, Forest Gar- 

 den and Wild Goose. Cherries: Early Richmond and English Mor- 

 relo most generall}^ favored. Grapes: Concord, W^orden, Moores. 

 Early, Martha, Pocklington and Coe. StraAvberries: Crescent, Chas. 

 Downing, Wilson, Glendale and Red Jacket. Raspberries: Greg"', 

 Tyler, Souhegan, Turner, Cuthbert. Shaffer's Colossal, Mammoth 

 Cluster and Doolittle. Blackberry: Snyder. Currants: Red Dutch, 

 White Dutch, White Grape, Victoria, Fay and Long Bunch Holland. 

 Gooseberries: Haughton and Downing. Pears had stood the winters 

 but succumbed to blight. 



And a word in regard to recommending lists for planting. It 

 has seemed to me impracticable, unless taken with a great amount of 

 consideration, and I was more firmly impressed by seeing the energy 

 with which these reports were attacked by members from different 

 localities, even in one State, but when we consider that they are liable 

 to be seen and followed by amateurs, far beyond State limits, may 

 they not do more harm than good. M. Vincent said, in a paper, that 

 hardiness is capable to withstand blight and drouth as well as ex- 

 treme cold, and much can be determined by leaf and bark as to their 

 capabilities. C. G. Patten and R. P. Speer read very able and care- 

 fully prepared papers on Plant Breeding, claiming that by cross-fer- 

 tilization, judiciously and carefully managed, a race of fruits can be 

 produced which will be hardy and productive, drawing their conclu- 

 sions from the reports of able scientists, tracing the breeding of an- 

 imals and plants for ages past, and reasoning from what has been to 

 what may be. 



In propagating grapes, W. C. Haviland makes cuttings in the fall, 

 buries them, lops downward, with about four inches of dirt over the 

 butts, and when ready to plant, takes them up and soaks them from 

 twelve to twenty-four hours before planting. 



Iowa being so predominantly a prairie State, very naturally 

 much stress and study is given to planting windbreaks, especially 

 evergreens, for protection and ornament, and this is something deserv- 

 ing much more attention on the prairies of Illinois than it receives. 

 During the meeting, intelligence was received of the death of 

 the veteran horticulturist, Suel Foster, of Muscatine, and resolutions 

 of respect were passed, and t would recommend that, at this our first 



