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during the season, and others have been reported to me ; some of which 

 will appear on the tables at this meeting and to which I ask the attention 

 of the committee on fruits. I am glad to say that there is among fruit 

 gi-owers generally such a spirit of philanthropy and liberality that those 

 who have discovered valuable varieties among their seedlings are willing 

 that others should share their good fortune and will bestow cions gratuit- 

 ouslv on those who wish to test them. 



Varieties. — It may be expected that I would report upon the varie- 

 ties that I have found to succeed best in the diflerent localities visited. 

 This would be an almost endless task, and the lists would be necessarily 

 imperfect, and therefore could not be taken as correct, and the only 

 guides to tree-planters. 



Your Secretary has secured for publication in the volume of Trans- 

 actions for 1S70, lists of valuable varieties of fruits from the most experi- 

 enced fruit-growers in diflerent parts of the State, which will be valuable 

 as guides to planters in these respective districts. I will therefore only 

 mention &few sorts that are found generally satisfactoiy. Of those that 

 seem to do well in all parts of the State, I will name Sops-of-\Vine, Kes- 

 wick Codling (short-lived but very productive), Benoni, Carolina June, 

 Maiden's Blush, Ben Davis, EngHsh Golden Russet, Willow Twig, 

 Lowell, Little Romanite, Rawles' Janet, Jonathan, White Winter Pear- 

 main (free from scab this year). 



In addition to the above, the following have been found valuable 

 throughout the northern half of the State, viz : 



Fameuse, Fall Swaar, Fall Winesap, Autumn Strawberry, Duchess 

 of Oldenburg, Sweet June, Northern Sweet, Tolman Sweet, Domine, 

 Westfield Seek-no-further, Minkler, Fall Orange, Roman Stem, Stan- 

 nard, Swaar, Cayuga Red-streak, Holland Pippin, Ramsdell's Sweet, 

 Fall Wine, Barnhill's Summer. 



The Early Pcnnock does well on rich prairie soil, but this and the 

 Winesap do not flourish on sandy land. The fruit of Carolina Junes, 

 both of the striped and blush-red varieties, was extremely fine this year. 

 I found two distinct varieties of the Snow apple (or Fameuse), varying 

 in appearance in the same manner as those of the Carolina June. The 

 striped variety has less acid and is generally a little larger than the full 

 red variety. The flesh of the latter is often tinged with red, especially 

 between the stem and the core. The Esopus Spitzenburg, Rhode Island 

 Greening, Vandevere, Baldwin, and some others that have usually been 

 found unprofitable, have this year borne good crops of fine fruit. 



I will leave this topic by again referring the hearer and reader to the 

 lists spoken of, which, I trust, will I'each them in time for planting trees 

 in the spring. 



The discouragement manifested throughout all the prairie regions of 

 the State during the last few years in regard to the adaptation of our 

 soil and climate to the cultivation of the apple, I attribute largely to short- 

 ness of memory in the orchardists. We can remember the universal wail 

 that went over the State in the spring of 1 856 when it was discovered that a 

 wholesale destruction had swept through our orchards. Few persons, at 



