:. THE SOUTH HAVEN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 505 



The committee who were selected to revise the list of subjects for discussion 

 ou the tirst Monday evening in each month presented the following : 



For January. — Selection of Varieties for Planting. 



February. — Spring Pruning and Destruction of Insects. 



March. — Packages, Packing and Transportation. 



April. — Preparation for Spring Planting; Enconragement of Birds. 



May. — Blossoming and Setting of Fruit, and Cultivation. 



Jnne. — Tlunniug and Pruning. 



July. — Composition of Soils ; Drainage ; Mulch and Irrigation. 



Avgust. — Development of Fruit and Wood. 



September. — Ripening of Fruit and Wood. 



October. — Picking, Packinj, and Preserving Fruit. 



November. — Pruning and Mulcliing in Preparation for Winter. 



December. — Varieties of Winter Fruit. 



"Which list was adopted by the society, and the committee further instructed 

 to prepare a list of persons to open the discussion. As the subject for Janu- 

 ary to be discussed must be presented at the next meeting, a list of varieties of 

 fruit for profit was prepared for Van Buren and Allegan counties: 



Apples. — Maiden's Blusli, Baldwin, Greening, Spy, and Red Canada. 

 Pears. — Bartlett and Beuire d'Anjou. 



Peaches. — IIale,Early Crawford, Early Barnard, Jacques' Rareripe, Old Mixon, and HiU's 

 Chili. 



Quinces. — Orange and Rea's Mammoth. 



Pfo;?j8— Lombard, Bradshaw, Coe's Golden Drop, and Bavay's Green Gage. 



Apricots. — Golden and Peacli. 



Nectarines. — Early Violet, Elruge Red Roman. 



Figs. — White Marseilles. 



Cherries. — Early Purple Guinne, and Rockport Black Tartarian. 



Gooseberries — HougLton and Mountain Seedling. 



Currants. — Red Dutch, Cberry, and Victoria. 



Orapes. — Delaware and Concord. 



Blackberries. — LawtoQ and Kittatinny. 



Raspberries.— M-iimmoih Ciu-ter, Clark, Pliiladelphia, and Hcrstine. 



Btraucberries. — Wilson and Triomph de Gand. 



On motion T. T. Lyon was appointed to open the discussion on the varieties 

 of Apples; Harvey Liuderman, on Peaches; 0. T. Bryant, on Pears, Plums, 

 Quinces, Apricots, Nectarines, Figs, and Cherries ; C. H. Wiggles worth, on 

 Small Fruits. 



The secretary then read the letter from the Director General of the Centen- 

 nial Exposition, inviting us to make an exhibition at Philadelphia in the sum- 

 mer of 1876 ; requesting us to elect such space as we thought vpe would n^^di. 

 TThe secretary recommended that the exhibition, if made, be made in glass 

 cases, two feet square, for the better preservation, i">rotection, and labeling of 

 the truit; that only a few of the leading varieties be shown, and these to be 

 perfect in every respect. That a case be made for apples, one for pears, one 

 for peaches, and one for other varieties of large fruit, and one for small fruits; 

 one case for canned fruits, one for dried fruits, one for insects, one for birds, 

 one for wood, one for the pressed leaves and another for the pressed blossoms 

 -of the different leading varieties of fruit; and, inasmuch as we had do botan- 

 ist for tlic preiniration and arrangement of blossoms and leaves, the secretary 

 moved that Woodford Law be chosen botanist for our society, which was car- 

 ried. 



C. J. Monroe moved that the society elect ten feet square of space for exhi- 

 i)ition at the Centennial Exposition. 



C. H. Wigglesworth thought that the exhibition should be made in the name 

 <of the society. 



