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If they arc buried six or seveu feet beneath the surface they can be kept until 

 grapes come again. The above method is so simple that any person can have 

 grapes as fresh as when picked from the vine at any time during the year. 



THE MANX APPLE. 



Mr. Elisha Moody of Lockport, who had previously sent on samples of the 

 Mann Apple for exhibition at this meeting, then gave a short talk about the 

 apple as follows : 



The description of the Mann Apple will be found in the appendix to Downing' s 

 Fruit and Fruit Trees of America, and runs like this: ''Tree hardy, an up- 

 right grower, with rather slender branches, forming a round head ; an early 

 and annual bearer, a late keeper, valuable for market and cooking, and a fair 

 table fruit. Fruit medium to large, roundish oblate, nearly regular; skin deep 

 yellow when fully ripe, often witli a shade of brownish red when exposed, and 

 thickly s})rinkled with light and gray dots, a few being areole ; stalks short, 

 rather small ; cavity medium or quite hirge, sometimes slightly russeted ; calyx 

 generally closed ; basin rather large, slightly corrugated ; flesh yellowish, half 

 fine, half tender, juicy, mild, pleasant subacid ; good to very good ; core medium. 

 January, April." I might add to this description that it keeps as well as the 

 lioxbury Eussct. 



We believe that the apple was once known as the "Deiltz" apple. We were 

 about the first to propagate it, and as we obtained our scions from Dr. Mann 

 of our county (Niagara), we have always called it the "Mann Apple," by which 

 name it is now known. 



We sent some of the trees to Missouri several years ago, and we are informed 

 that they have not been injured in the least by the unusual cold winters of the 

 loast few vears. A nurservman there writes us that he thinks it more hardv than 

 the Duchess of Oldenburg. 



Wednesday Evening. 



The session opened with some questions put to Mr. Moody, which elicited 

 a little more information upon the Mann apple. He considered it a great 

 acquisition. Specimens were shown and tested by interested members, and the 

 apple was pronounced all that it was recommended. 



Prof. lugersoll of the State Agricultural College then gave an address,, 

 which was listened to with great interest upon 



ORCHARD DRAINAGE AND CULTIVATION. 



It may seem somewhat out of place to speak of orchard drainage to an audi- 

 ence in a portion of our State where but little of the soil needs artificial drainage, 

 and especially where such a dis^ilay of fine fruits is made and most of them 

 raised on undrained lands. But because you have thus succeeded in favored 

 localities and under favorable circumstances, do not flatter yourselves that^such 

 work is superfluous and unnecessary. 



Many of you are aware that large portions of our State need drainage of 

 some kind before the farmer can raise crops successfully : that there are many 



