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is the laro^est dealer in apples here, as well as the oldest, his sales reaching 

 nearly half a million dollars annually. 



My object was to learn what sorts of winter apples he sold the most of, and 

 that gave best satisfaction. He said he hardly wanted to see more than five 

 varieties, and he named them as follows, the first named being the most valu- 

 able, and so on, viz: Rhode Island Greening, Esopus Spitzenburg, Baldwin, 

 Northern Spy, Roxbury Russet. He remarked that in the fifteen years that 

 he had been in the fruit trade here, he had tried several times to introduce 

 other sorts, some of which are as good, or possibly better; but the above are 

 so well known and so satisfactory that he would not care to raise any others. 

 Yours truly, Thomas Lyman. 



Mr. "W. H. Adams, in a paper to the secretary, stated that his collated list of 

 trees, sold this winter for the Grand Traverse nurseries, shows the varieties of 

 apples most in public favor to be, — Wagener, Rhode Island Greening, and 

 Golden Russet; and of pears, the Bartlett, Flemish Beauty, and Doyenne 

 d'Ete. 



In order to ascertain which was considered by the club to be the best des* 

 sert apple, each member was requested to name the three varieties which he 

 esteemed most highly for this purpose. The result was : 



Ist Choice. 2d Choice. 3d Choice. 



Golden Russet 11 5 6 



Grimes' Golden 3 3 9 



Esopus Spitzenburg 5 7 3 



Belmont .-. 10 



Swaar - 10 1 



Lady Apple 10 



Roxbury Russet 1 1 



Wagener 14 



Rhode Island Greening 3 5 



Northern Spy 10 



Mr. Curtis. — I suggest that a resolution be passed to the effect that this club 

 deems it unwise to grow the Esopus Spitzenburg for market in this region. I 

 make this suggestion because I think it just as practicable to grow pine apples 

 as the Esopus Spitzenburg to perfection here, and I should regret exceeding- 

 ly should any vote of this club influence any person to grow this apple. I be- 

 lieve those apples of this variety exhibited at our last meeting were very in- 

 ferior to those grown in other regions. Of a dozen trees which I have in my 

 orchard, not one is fine and healthy, and only one has borne fruit, although 

 they are nine or ten years old. The Golden Russet, on the contrary, grows to 

 greater perfection than in any other region that I know of. 



Mr. Porter. — I have some Esopus Spitzenburg trees the same age as those of 

 Mr. Curtis, which have borne a few apples the last two years, and are as hand- 

 some and healthy as the trees of other varieties in the orchard, except the bark- 

 splitting, to which they are subject. 



Mr. E. Wait. — I have some trees of this variety which are as nice and healthy 

 as any in my orchard. They are nine years old and have borne well the last 

 two years. 



Mr. Marshall. — I have one tree of the Esopus Spitzenburg twelve years old, 

 which has borne but little. 



Mr. Parmelee. — I admit that the Esopus Spitzenburg has the reputatiou of 



