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They found, also, a small collection of dried fruits, including apple, tomato, 

 squash, pumpkins, and peach, evaporated by the pneumatic process. 



They recommended the thanks of the Society to the exhibitors for their 

 efforts iu securing the success of the meeting by their fine displays. The report 

 was unanimously adopted. 



THURSDAY EVENING SESSION. 



J. D. Husted, from the committee on recommendation of the proportion of 

 each variety of trees in every 100 to be planted by the orchardist, submitted a 

 report recommending a partial list, differing from that reported by Mr. Lyon, 

 chairman of the committee, and specially designed, as stated, for the northern 

 and northwestern portions of the State. 



The report was accepted, and with the full report submitted by Mr. Lyon, 

 these two gentlemen being the only members of the committee present, were 

 laid on the table to be printed in the proceedings of the Society. 



Mr. Husted then read a paper setting forth the necessity for a proper classi- 

 fication of fruits for the orchard. 



The fruit-raiser who disobeys the laws of Pomona will find his returns unpro- 

 fitable and the end of his labors disappointment. With the masses no branch 

 of industry, perhaps, has been more neglected, or conducted with so imperfect 

 an understanding of the proper means required to produce the desired result 

 as that of growing fruit. In almost every other branch, the principles upon 

 which success depends are carefully studied, and the business reduced to sys- 

 tem in all its details. How many of those planting fruit trees at the present 

 day fully understand the character of the trees they are planting, or the capa- 

 bilities of the soil they have selected for the orchard site. If exposed to heavy 

 winds, those varieties should be selected which adhere most firmly to the tree, 

 and were this fact known and acted upon by the planter, he would make an 

 annual saving of a large percentage of fruit. 



Mr. Husted held the opinion that the orchards now in bearing throughout 

 this State would be more than doubled in their present value if they consisted 

 only of the most profitable varieties, or of those best calculated for the purposes 

 for which they may be raised, instead of being, as they now are, a hit-and-miss 

 collection, grading all the way through from good to bad, with decidedly more 

 of the latter sort, all scattered indiscriminately through the orchard, and pre- 

 senting annually a standing reproach upon the intelligence and care of the 

 planter. Much of this loss arises from improper selection for planting. 



Mr. Lyon, from the standing committee on Nomenclature of Fruits, directed, 

 at the December meeting to consider the question of the names and identity of 

 certain fruits, made a very interesting report, which was accepted. 



Mr. Jeremiah Brown, a venerable orchardist of Calhoun county, read a paper 

 upon apples, in which he indicated in detail the qualities of certain varieties 

 which he had found to be most excellent for certain uses, and presenting valua- 

 ble food for thought to the Society. Apples have become one of the necessities 

 of life, and are no longer a luxury only. Years ago it was not so, and the inci- 

 dent was mentioned of a thorough farmer and temperance man, a friend of the 



