54 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Early in the proceedings of this meeting in the appointment of committees 

 one was selected to report upon "other things'' than apples. This committee 

 being ready to report, Mr. AVliitney. chairman, read tlie following: 



Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen : 



Your committee on Other Things has given the various matters under this 

 head due consideration, and would humbly beg leave to submit the following 

 report, hoping tliat, while it is neither comprehensive nor exhaustive, it may 

 serve to develop thought and investigation in tiiis and many other tilings. We 



begin witli 



FLOWERS. 



"We find on exhibition a few fine specimens of the Friniula sinensis, by John 

 S. Crawford, of Pontiac. The specimens are M-ell grown and unusually well 

 flowered. The white all-white Chinese primrose is one of the best of all the 

 primroses but unfortunately is high in value, because it can rarely be grown 

 from seed, and with difficulty and but slowly from cuttings. Many new varie- 

 ties of this class are known to florists. One, the new John Saul, sells at $2 

 and upwards for fine plants. Small plants of the more common of the class 

 command from §;30 to ^oO per hundred. The pink \ariety and many better 

 ones arc easily grown from seed when the needed care is given to planting, 

 shading, watering, etc., but they may be bought at prices ranging from 810 to 

 $20 per hundred. For winter blooming no plants succeed better than the various 

 sorts of Primula. Your committee can only wish that they might have had 

 more such "other things" to report upon, 



PEARS 



next claim a space in our report. Three varieties are upon exhibition. One 

 plate of Vicar of Winkfield is shown by Mr. Drake, of Sonthfield. This pear 

 is a little past its prime, yet we could only wish they were more in number and 

 size. Two varieties, of one specimen each, of the Fox Seedling are upon exhibi- 

 tion, brought by Mr. Adams from the Rochester meeting. These were grown 

 by Barnard S. Fox, of San Jose, California, who sent sixty-five varieties to 

 the American Pomological Society, at the Chicago meeting, and were furnished 

 by Messrs. Ellwanger ^ Barry, Bochester, N. Y. The largest pear is named 

 the Barry, in honor of Patrick Barry, the eminent pomologist of llochester, 

 N. Y. Although far past its prime, and having passed through the transpor- 

 tations and exhibition, this pear gives evidence of good quality and would com- 

 mand a fair price anywliere, and if it proves a productive variety and can bo 

 acclimated and retain all its good qualities, we ought to hail its advent. The 

 Wilder, named for Marshall P. Wilder, of the American Pomological Society, 

 is of firm textin-c and is very sweet, and will make a good market variety. 

 Further develo])nients and trial will settle many questions in regard to these 

 pears. 



TWO PLATES or GRAPES 



are shown by L. C. Wiiiting, of East Saginaw. One sample is the Diana, and 

 the other the Clinton, both fair samples, that had Ijeen kept by putting them 

 in a stone crock and setting it in the ground beneath the frost. They were 

 picked when perfectly dry, and i^acked in layers with dry, soft paper between. 



