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The following list of apples was adopted l\v the Society as com- 

 prising the varieties which experience had sanctioned, viz.: Early, 

 Ked Astrachan and Duchess of Oldenhurg; for gardens, Tetofskey; 

 Slimmer and fall. Fameuse and Alexander: winter^ Willow Twig. 

 The Wealthy apple (late fall and early winter) originated by Peter 

 M. Gideon, of Minnesota, and endorsed by the State Horticultural 

 Society of Iowa, was recommended for trial. 



Mr. Summer said that the finest show of apples which he had 

 seen at the recent meeting of the Iowa Horticultural Society was a 

 lot of unnamed seedlings, grown by one man in the state. Let fruit- 

 meil of the northwest bestow upon growing in their own soil and 

 climate some of the labor and money now consumed in importing, 

 acclimating varieties from the Western States, and we. may have a 

 new era in fruit culture in this hyperborean region. 



MAY MEETING. 



The May meeting was held at Mrs. H. P. Corwith's. 



On Entomology, Mr. W. F. Crumnier, by request, preseiited a 

 paper on the Snowy Tree Cricket, (^-Ecanflnis rirens,) an insect 

 which he found very pernicious by cutting into raspberry canes, 

 which it uses as a nidus for its eggs. 



Mr. Hallett gave a sketch of the labors of the late Capt. Beebe 

 and Prof. LeBaron in introducing the (Jhalcis Fly into his (Mr. H.'s) 

 orchard, in order to colonize said insect iii one vicinity, for the pur- 

 pose of destroying the Oyster-shell Bark Louse, of which latter in- 

 sect the former is a parasite. In course of time the baik louse had 

 cea.sed to give him trouble. He could not say whether or not the 

 Chalcis Fly had done the good work. 



Mrs. Harris read a pai)er on "Domestic Animals as Insect Para- 

 sites." She believed in swine, shee]), chickens, geese, and ducks, as 

 the best of all scavengers and insect destroyers. 



