252 ILLINOIS STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Woodard's motion adopting the Tetofsky for trial prevailed. 



Mr. Galusha — I would like to hear about the Fourth of July, about 

 which so much was said in this Society, and in the papers a few years ago. 

 I was induced to procure and plant a couple of the trees, one of which 

 bore last summer. The fruit is a beautiful, smooth apple, yellowish-white 

 ground, striped with wide stripes of red when ripe, ripening soon after 

 Early Harvest and before Carolina June ; of a sub-acid flavor, not as good 

 as Carolina June. The tree is a compact, upright grower, with strong 

 shoots ; it did not seem to be damaged by the hard winter of two years 

 ago. 



Mr. Scott, and several other members, thinks it identical with the 

 Tetofsky, while others insisted that there is a difference in the trees. 



Mr. Scott moved to strike off all the pears from the committee's 

 list except Flemish Beauty. 



Mr. Slade — If I had planted all Bartletts I would have been richer . 

 for it. Flemish Beauty has not done well for me. 



Mr. Cochran spoke of a pear orchard belonging to a neighbor of 

 his, in which the trees blighted down nearly to the ground sometimes, yet 

 sprung up again, and had given a good crop; and he had found the same 

 thing occurring in other places in his travels. 



Mr. Galusha spoke of a row of dwarf pears which he planted more 

 than twenty years ago, and which had been manured occasionally as 

 blighting, more or less, every few years during the time, but which 

 renewed themselves and bore a crop as often as once in three years, on 

 an average. 



Mr. Richmond — For the last ten years Lawrence has proved best 

 with me. Flemish Beauty has been killed with blight, while Lawrence, 

 standing near, has escaped. 



Mr. Scott — Flemish Beauty stands best at Galena. A seedling 

 variety, three trees of which are growing there, gives an enormous crop 

 every year of hardy fruit — small, and not best, but which brings a good 

 price. I have grown pears twenty years and found no cultivated variety, 

 except Flemish Beauty, that would endure. Bartlett trees give one crop, 

 and then succumb to blight. 



Mr. Scott's motion was put to vote and lost. 



On motion of Mr. Howell, the list, as reported, was adopted, "for 

 family use." 



