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appear; to grow less almost every year. I will sijcak of a few that I can 

 recommend, and if largely planted would feed the million: 



The Red Astrachan, Kirkbridge IVliite, (Yellow June?), Duchess of 

 O/denberg, Hass, (Maryland Queen ?), Soulard, ( Early Nonpariel and 

 Early Nonesuch?), Snow (sometimes scabby), Domine, Winesap, Wil- 

 low Tivig, Ben Davis, Gilpin and Tolman Sweet. There are some others 

 that promise well, but before recommending I would consider it .safer to 

 give them a further trial. This is truly a very small list, but by careful 

 selection, both from home and abroad, it can, in time, be made to meet 

 every want. 



When the laws of hygiene are better understood, then will the use of 

 fruits as a diet be more highly prized, and be considered a necessity at 

 every board. 



Whatever drawbacks and failures we may suffer, we cannot afford to 

 turn back ; our experience is growing every day, and we are gaining in 

 new appliances by which Horticulture is becoming more and more of a 

 success. Trul}' }-ours, 



L. S. PExNNINGTON. 



Mr. Bailey — I would suggest that the report of Mr. Pennington be 

 referred to the secretaries, and that so much as pertains to the varieties 

 of the apple be put upon the blackboard for the benefit of the Society. 

 It is, perhaps, a little out of the way, but many of us want to plant 

 orchards next spring, and would therefore like to have put on the black- 

 board the list of apples recommended, so that when we come to plant we 

 may avoid the bad and take the good. 



This was acceeded to, and the Assistant Secretary put on the black- 

 board the list referred to. 



The President — We are now through with the call for the after- 

 noon. Any discussion is, of course, in order. 



DISCUSSION ON ORCHARDS. 



Dr. Humphrey — I do not wish to take up any time, as the question 

 of the failure of the fruit crop for the year may come up under a si)ecia] 

 head. There is one subject mentioned in the report of the Committee 

 on Orchard Culture, and one in the report of the Vice-President for the 

 first district, to which I should like to call attention, and that is in refer- 

 ence to the success of orchards, vineyards, and trees in general upon 

 these bleak places. There is a fact that we sometimes overlook. W^hen 

 a plant is protected by mulching, and is not subjected to freezing and 

 thawing, it comes out right in the spring. Ground having a slope to 

 the north freeze up early in the autumn, and does not thaw out until the 

 spring, while a piece that is protected by a belt of timber is subjected to 



