QQ STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Kimj Sweeting. — The President. Perhaps a little explanation 

 may be necessary upon this variety. It originated in Belgrade, 

 aud has been carried over a considerable portion of the State. It 

 is known as the King Sweeting throughout the State where it 

 is cultivated ; it is rather small but very sweet, tender aud juicy. 

 Season, last of August and first of September. 



Joseph Taylor of Belgrade. In regard to that apple it will 

 maintain every thing that has been said of it. I know its origin. 

 My father took the first scion some 60 or 70 years ago, and the 

 first apple we ever got of this kind, grew from that graft. It was 

 eaten by the family of my father, each only had a taste of it, and 

 it was pronounced by us, children as we were, the best apple we 

 ever tasted, and I am certain that it will maintain its reputation 

 to-day. It is the best sweet apple that I ever tasted, I think. 



The President. Its texture is coarse, is it not ? 



Friend Taylor. Not very. 



Question. How does it keep ? does it decay quickly ? 



Friend Taylor. No ; I have known some of these apples to 

 keep into the winter. I have found them as stray apples among 

 my winter apples. It is an apple that will ripen well ; some of 

 them will get ripe earlier than others. It is a desirable apple on 

 that account, and it is a great bearer, and therefore it is the very 

 perfection of good fruit. 



Voted, To retain the King Sweeting on the list. 



Primate. — The President. This apple is not extensively grown 

 in the State, although a fine fruit. There has a question arisen 

 here whether this fruit should be introduced at this point of time 

 as a succession. Will the chairman of the committee inforui us upon 

 that point, and whether the Early Harvest does not in a measure 

 take the place of it? I would ask friend Taylor if he raises the 

 Early Harvest ? 



Mr. Taylor. I have never raised that apple, but I have raised 

 the other variety you were speaking of; it is a variety the scions 

 of which were sent rae from New York, and for about five or six 

 years I have raised them. I know but little about the Early 

 Harvest. 



Question. What time does the Primate ripen ? 



Answer. About the latter part of August or the first of Sep- 

 tember, I believe. 



Mr. Pope. The idea we had in putting it on the list was that 



