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On VegetaUes. — Thomas Hall, Eobert Stead, H. D. Hastings, Thomas W. 

 Lockwood. 



On Green House Plants and Florists' Flowers. — John Ford, M. Howard 

 Webster, John C. Holmes, William B. Wesson. 



NAMES OF MEMBEES. 



William Adair, Samuel Barstow, Geo. G. Bull, George Duffield, John Ford, 

 Thomas Hall, Henry D. Hastings, John 0. Holmes, Lewis Hall, Bela Hub- 

 bard, Thomas W. Lockwood, Geo. V. N. Lothrop, John Lumsden, F. F. Mer- 

 ceron, J. H. Morris, William E. Noyes, John B. Piquette, Francis Eaymond, 

 Eobert Stead, John E. Schwarz, B. G. Stimson, Adrian E. Terry, John Winder, 

 M. Howard Webster, Wm. B. Wesson. 



In 1841 the Society held several exhibitions of horticultural products, as 

 well as meetings for conversation, lectures and discussions. 



For the purpose of showing what were the leading varieties of fruit under 

 cultivation, and who were some of the fruit-growers in and near Detroit at 

 that time, twenty-six years ago, I will give the names of some of the exhibit- 

 ors and the fruits exhibited in 1847. Among the varieties named you will 

 probably recognize some that were long since discarded, and stricken from the 

 list worthy of general cultivation in Michigan. 



At the Society's exhibition of August :^4th, 1847, Mr. Marvin Hannah, of 

 Albion, exhibited Eed Magnum Bonum, Blue Gage, Green Gage, Yellow Gage, 

 and Damson plums. 



Bela Hubbard, of Springwells, French Jargonelle and seedling pears, 

 Imperial Gage and Blue Gage plums. 



A. C. Hubbard, of Troy, Orange Pippin and seedling apples of 1846, and 

 Bleeker's Scarlet plums. 



J. C. Holmes, Detroit, a collection of apples and pears. 



James Dougall, Amherstberg, C. W., Prince's Yellow Gage, Purple Seedling, 

 Pond's Seedling, Imperial Gage, Blue Seedling, Mediterranean and Washington 

 plums. American Summer Pearmain, Summer Queen, Hawthornden, Sweet 

 Bough, Keswick Codlin, Alexander, and Lyman's large summer apples, and 

 English Jargonelle pears. 



Zeri Phelps, Plymouth, Cheseborough Eusset, Golden Pippin and Sweet 

 Bough apples. Prince's Imperial Gage plum. 



Eoswell Eoot, Plymouth, Early Harvest, Spice Sweet, and Golden Pippin 

 apples. 



H. Weeks, Plymouth, one dish and three large clusters of Washington plums. 



Jonathan Shearer, Plymouth, Prince's Imperial Gage plum, and Eed Eare- 

 ripe peaches. 



John G. Welch, Plymouth, Sweet Bough, Golden Pippin, and Sweet Spice 

 apples. 



John G. Bennet, John Tibbets, M. Shutts, E. J. Penniman, D. Averill, H. 

 Frailick, John Westfall, Wm. Blackmore, H. B. Holbrook, Andrew Bradner, 

 David Warner, John Kellogg, Grafter Warner, E. Starkweather, John Barker, 

 John Miller, Moses Lyon, and Henry Lyon, each exhibited early apples, mostly 

 Sweet Bough, Spice Sweet, and Golden Pippin. 



James V. Campbell, Detroit, a large cluster of Blue plums, Mediterranean 

 plums, and Black Cluster grapes. All these fruits exhibited in August were, 

 of course, early fruits. You notice that plums were very plenty then, the Our- 

 culio not being so destructive in this State as it has been since. 



