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•serious damage. The address was very interesting and was highly appreciated 

 ^by the audience. 



A letter was rea 1 from Herbert iVlyrick, editor of Farm and Home of 

 Mass., on 



EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 



the primary object of which appeared to have been to call attention to what 

 was known as the Hatch bill, at that time pending before Congress, and to 

 urge upon the society the propriety of adopting rosohitions urging favorable 

 action thereon, by the members of Congress from Michigan. 



Messrs. Miles, Willard and Monroe also urged the desirability of action on 

 the matter. 



The first hour of the Wednesday evening session was devoted to a considera- 

 tion of the merits of the newer fruits. A goodly number of these were con- 

 ^sidered, after which the secretary read a series of 



NOTES ON SOME NEW APPLES, 



by T. H. Hoskins, M. D., of Vermont, which have recently attracted atten- 

 tion in the colder regions of the north and northwest, largely on account of 

 their extreme hardiness. 



This was followed by a letter on the same subject by J. S. Stickney, vice 

 president of the Wisconsin Horticultural Society, giving an account of a visit 

 to. the experimental orchard of A. G-. Tuttle of Baraboo, Wisconsin, and of 

 the Eussian varieties he saw in fruit there. 



Considerable time was given to the discussion of the Jewell strawberry, 

 which was generally agreed to be promising, although another season's trial 

 ■was deemed advisable. 



NOTES ON THE NEWER GRAPES 



were then read from Geo. W. Campbell of Ohio, in the course of which 

 Empire State, Niagara, Worden, Pocklingtou, Brighton, Moore, Hayes, Ver- 

 gennes, Early Victor, and Jefferson wtre more or less highly commended, 

 and Ulster and Poughkeepsie Red were mentioned as promising. 



Another subject here for a few minutes interrupted the published pro- 

 gramme, an account of which is given in the language of the secretary, as 

 follows : 



*'At this juncture a matter came up not announced upon the programme. 

 Secretary G-arfield, who was seated in front of the audience, beckoned Presi- 

 ■dent Lyon as if to engage him in a moment's conversation, and Vice-Presi- 

 dent Gibson assumed the chair. 



Upon turning about the president's attention was attracted by an address 

 from the vice-president that seemed partially directed to him. Mr. Gibson 

 spoke eloquently and with intense feeling of the great work done for Michi- 

 gan pomology by Mr. Lyon and the reliance the society had always placed in 

 his knowledge of honiculture ; how he had given standing abroad to our 

 society when it was yet weak, and of the work he is now doing for the State 

 in writing a history of Michigan's progress in horticulture for fifty years. 

 While Mr. Gibson was speaking Mr. W. N. Cook, a life member of the 



