STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 187 



Hull, (in answer to question.) — I dont train to any special form. 

 Capet, in the Jardin des Plantes, planted pear trees, and produced 

 marvelous results from pruning, by recognizing leaves and fruit buds, 

 and keeping them balanced. A pear growing in the interior of one 

 of his trees had just as good a chance as any. Such pears brought 

 five francs apiece, when pears of the same variety could be bought 

 in the Paris markets at five francs a bushel. 



Spalding — The proper system of shortening-in is thinning bark. 



Flagg — Of new varieties I would suggest Salway, a new seed- 

 ling, disseminated by T. J. Pullen, resembling the Smock, and 

 claimed to be two weeks later. Also Picquefs Late, which P. J. 

 Berckmans writes me is the best market peach in Georgia to succeed 

 Smock. Both are said to be large, yellow fleshed and freestone. 



Freeman, II. C. — I have a seedling tree six or seven years old, 

 which fruited the second time last year. I sent off four boxes of 

 them on the 15th October, which was a week too early, and they 

 sold at $2.50 a box against Michigan peaches at $1.50. It is much 

 later than the Smock, which ripens early in September with us. It 

 resembles Smock ; is large, and has small globose or almost reniform 

 glands. 



THE NEW STATE HOUSE. 



Mr. Shepherd introduced a resolution in condemnation of the 

 new State House. It was tabled as not german to the objects for 

 which the Society had convened. 



STANDING COMMITTEES. 



The President announced the following as the Standing Commit- 

 tees for 1869 : 



Meteorology — William Baker, J. W. Tollman, J. II. Tice. 

 Botany — George Vasey, L. D. Morse, T. J. Bunill. 

 Entom<>li<i'.l — B. D. Walsh, C. V. Riley, T. A. E. Holcomb. 

 Ornithology— J. Periam, G. \V. Minler, E. S. Hull. 



Ornamcnt'ii and Timber Tree* — Samuel Edwards, J. W. Fell, A. M. Brown. 

 Fruit Packages — Parker Earle, E. A. Riehl, H. D. Emery. 

 Geology and Soils — II. C. Freeman, J. Shaw, W. B\ Bliss. 



Ad-Interim — J. W. Cochran, E. Baldwin, B. Pullen, S. Edwards, W. C. Flagg, H. C. 

 Freeman. 



