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good; Black Naples currant, good; Ked and White Dutch currant, good; 

 Madelaine pear, wood badly discolored; Bartlett, good; Siberian crab apple, 

 good ; Baldwin, Yellow Bough, William's Favorite, Twenty Ounce, and other 

 apples, good; seedling of the Clinton grape, good. 



P. D. Sneathen, South Boston, Ionia county, brings three sorts of pear scions, 

 good; Black Tartarian cherry, good; Governor Wood, good ; peach buds, 

 good ; Smock, good ; Early Kichmond cherry, good ; Mayduke, good ; Late 

 Puke, good ; apples, good. 



Mathew Hart, Boston, Ionia county, peach buds of all sorts, good, 



N. P. Ilusted, Lowell Nursery, three sorts of cherry, good. 



James H. Martin, Grand Eapids town, Mayduke cherry, good; peaches, 

 injured; pears, dead; Duane's Purple plum, good ; apples, good. 



Wm. Eobinson, Vergennes, brought a fine lot of peach buds. Early and Late 

 Crawford, good ; Ked Cheek Melacatoou, good ; Early York, injured ; apples, 

 good. 



B. Barclay, Ada, exhibited a beautiful twig of the Royal Kensington peach, 

 very good; Early Crawford, wood good, fruit buds dead; Late Crawford, some 

 buds good; Hale's Early, one-half good. 



George Steele, Grattan^ exhibited pear buds, good ; Elkhart cherry, good ; 

 apples all good. 



Converse Close, Grattan, sent quite a variety of peach buds. Early and Late 

 Crawford, Smock, Hale's Early, Early Barnard, Jacques Eareripe, all good. If 

 the peaches were good he said it was reasonable to suppose his other fruits were 

 good. 



N. P. Husted exhibited a Daphne Mezereum plant in blossom, which grew 

 in its nursery row; also very vigorous three-year-old trees of the Mayduke and 

 Early Richmond cherry, good; three-year-old Wagener and Dutchess de Old- 

 enbnrgh apple trees ; nursery stock, good. 



S. Collar, Ada, brought fine live buds of the Early and Late Crawford. 



Geo. W. Dickinson, Grand Eapids town, had Oxheart cherry, good ; Common 

 Red, good ; Mayduke, good ; Washington plum, dead ; Isabella grape good ; 

 Bartlett, pear good; White Doyenne good. 



The exhibition of fruit buds was creditable, and gave abundant promise of 

 good crops of fruit. 



(Signed,) G. W. DICKINSON, Grand Eapids Town. 



A. T. LINDEEMAN, Grand Eapids. 

 BYAED BAECLAY, Ada. 

 J. L. CLEMENTS, Ada. 

 J. T. ELLIOTT, Grand Eapids. 



The reports were accepted and adopted. 



Mr. Barkley asked how he should prevent his peach trees from overbearing. 



Mr. Holt. — Shorten in, — cut back one-half of last year's growth; that would 

 destroy one-half of the fruit buds. 



Mr. Fuller. — Thin your fruit, — unload your trees. 



Mr. Barkley. — I have tried that and find it hard work. 

 ' Mr. Fuller. — You might as well pick off the fruit at one time as another. 



Mr. Cook. — It is not likely he will be troubled with overbearing this year. 



Mr. Barclay. — I can raise peaches just as well as I could twenty years ago. 



Mr. Bradfield. — I think this question of protection for fruit trees needs fur- 

 ther elucidation. I am not satisfied. 



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