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Seneca counties. ISTew York, from whence I have obtained cions and set here; 

 the tree is thrifty and productive, and the fruit of good size, striped, an excel- 

 lent keeping dessert and baking apple, greatly superior to the Tallman Sweet. 

 I regard the catalogue of fruits authorized by the State Pomological Society 

 as exceedingly valuable, and am surprised that the committee should have been 

 able to render it so accurate and reliable. It is certainly the result of great 

 experience, care and conscientious labor. 



REPOKT OF THE COMMITTEE OX FRUITS. 



To the President and Memlcrs of the Michigan State Pomological Society : 



Your Committee on fruit congratulate the society upon its excellent exhibi- 

 tion of strawberries, which by general acceptation is a display of the largest 

 number of varieties ever made before this society. We are especially gratified 

 at the efforts made by Messrs. Lyon and Humphrey, and of the Agricultural 

 College, at Lansing, to place before the society for general examination so 

 many different varieties of strawberries. 



Mr. J. W. Humphrey, of Michigan Lake Shore Nurseries, at South Haven, 

 exhibits 30 plates of the following varieties of strawberries : Agriculturist, 

 American, Bidwell, Black Defiance, Boyden's Xo. 30, Captain Jack, Cham- 

 pion, Col. Cheney, Cowing's Seedling, Cumberland Trium})h, Damask Beauty, 

 Downer's Prolific, Duncan, Great American, Green Prolific, Glendale, Hud- 

 son's No. 10, Jucunda, Kentucky, Late Prolific, Monarch of the West, Presi- 

 dent Wilder, Russell's Advance, Komeyn, Seneca Chief, Seneca Queen, 

 Springdale, Victoria, and Wilson. 



The Agricultural College exhibits a collection of 35 varieties, as follows: 

 Afrique, Black Defiance, Captain Jack, Carolina, Champion, Charles Down- 

 ing, Cumberland Triumph, Duncan, Emperor, Excelsior, Gen. Sherman, 

 Glendale, Grace, Great American, Hervey J3avis, Matilda, Monarch of the 

 West, Russell, Russell's Prolific, Seneca Chief, Seneca Queen, Boyden's No. 

 30, Star, Sterling, and Walden. 



Mr. S. R. Lewis, of Ganges, Michigan, a basket containing very fine speci- 

 mens of Triomphe de Gand, Wilson, and Seneca Chief. 



Mr. AVard, of Benton Harbor, a box of exceedingly fine Jucundas. 



Mr. E. Wood, from the farm of S. B. Peck, a box of excellent Monarchs. 



Mr. W. A Brown, of Stevensville, Michigan, a number of specimens illus- 

 trating the action of frost upon berries. 



Mr. James Pointer, of St. Joseph, a box of Crescent. 



A. McDaniels, of Stevensville, Mich., a box of Monarch with green tips, 

 showing the habits of this variety in that locality. 



Mr. W. D. Bartholomew, of Lake Harbor, Michigan, two boxes of Wilson 

 and one of Jucunda — both superior s])ecimens. 



AVm. Culver, of Laketon, a basket containing Monarch, Kentucky, Green 

 Prolific, Wilson, and Col. Cheney, and illustrating the benefits of high culture 

 in hills. 



Your committee regret, and are surprised at the meagre and indifferent 

 show of fruit from Muskegon. We find only one variety of strawberry, in two 

 boxes from Muskegon, exhibited by Mr. M. A. Rowley, and marked Col. 

 Cheney. 



No specimens of Forest Rose were on exhibition. We find that the Mon- 

 arch during the present season has produced very different results in dif- 



