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Mr. Flagg — I understand that the ridges are sour and the hollows 

 are sweet. 



Mr. McWhorter — The information I had from J. J. Thomas led me 

 to the conclusion that these ridges of different flavor in the sweet and 

 sour apple originated from the way in which the apple was exposed to the 

 light. Some of the apples have more of sweet, and others a great deal 

 more of sour. Some have two ridges of sweet and two of sour. Some 

 would be all one thing. I could not tell the cause, as I have not had 

 much observation of them. 



Mr. Avery — In regard to this sweet and sour apple, I have seen 

 apples growing on the same limb, one would be sour and the other en- 

 tirely sweet ; and upon the same apple there would be little spots about 

 the size of the end of my finger that would be very sour, indeed, and 

 usually these sour parts are green. That has been occurring in my father's 

 orchard for fifty years. Grafted from that tree we have several trees 

 growing. The apple is decidedly sweet, with a portion of it decidedly 

 sour, and growing on the same tree, side by side. You will find one 

 limb that is pretty nearly all sour. My father brought it from Con- 

 necticut, and grafted it into a young tree. The tree is probably eight 

 inches in diameter. 



Mr. McWhorter — This matter having been brought out, it is hardly 

 worth while mentioning that " the apple originated from split buds of the 

 Rhode Island greening and the sweet apple ;" that is the way in which it 

 was produced ; but horticulturists know these things to be a myth. 



The meeting then adjourned to half past seven. 



DEDICATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 



At half past one, the Society assembled, and, without organizing, 

 repaired to the large hall of the University, to witness the dedicatory ser- 

 vices of the new building of the Illinois State Industrial University. These 

 exercises consisted in music by the University choir and the University 

 band, a history of the University by the Regent, J. M. Gregory, LL.D., 

 and speeches by Governor Beveridge, Dr. Wines, of State Board of Pub- 

 lic Charities, and others. All the exercises were interesting and instruct- 

 ive, leaving an impression upon the minds of the members of this Society 

 that the University which this Society had so large a part in establishing 

 is doing its legitimate work, and that its influence will be felt at no dis- 

 tant day, in the better education of the industrial classes generally, in the 

 greater dignity of labor, and in a far greater advancement in the arts and 

 sciences. 



