96 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Saul commencled Bowers' Early for Maryland ; also Levis' Late for Wasli- 

 ngton, D. C. 



Plusmann commended a recently discovered late seedling, ripening October 

 3tli, and named October Beauty. 



Green, of Eochester, N. Y., commended the Wager peach, — a new variety. 



W. 0. Barry named Early Silver, and Early Eivers, as acquisitions. 



Ilape, of Georgia, named HaDc's Early, as promising. 



Saul named Bilyeris Late, and Fleita's St. John, as excellent at Washington. 



After the close of the discussion on peaches, Professor Lazenby, Superin- 

 tendent of the horticultural gardens of Cornell University, gave an address 

 on the Relation of Science to the Profession of Horticulture, replete with 

 hints respecting the important bearings or relations of the two; but of which 

 we can hardly claim your time for even an abstract. 



A brief space of time was then devoted to the discussion of Strawberries. 



Mr. Barry named the Sharpless, of which he had been the introducer, and 

 commended it highly. This was concurred in by Rev. E. P. Roe, of New- 

 burgh, N. Y"., who spoke of the Setli Boyden, as successful as far south as 

 Florida. He also mentioned Neunan's Prolific as marvelously productive in 

 Georgia. He, however, regarded Miner's Great Prolific as the most promising 

 among 140 varieties he had tested ; while he regarded the President Lincoln 

 as very desirable, and he named the Crystal City as the earliest. 



W. C. Barry spoke of Cinderella as bearing large crops, and as being highly 

 perfumed. 



Hape, of Georgia, commended Monarch of the AVest for his locality; and 

 named the Eclipse as standing their southern sun well. 



Purdy, of N. Y., named Pioneer, as the most delicious variety he grew; 

 and spoke of the Prouty as too prolific. He spoke of the Wilson as unsur- 

 passed; and characterized the Great American as a failure. 



This closed the discussions, and was followed by the report of the commit- 

 tee on resolutions ; after which a few explanatory statements were made by 

 Mr. P. Barry, respecting the action of the A\^estern N. Y. Agricultural Soci- 

 3ty, in refusing the usual courtesy of passes, to the members of the Pomolog- 

 ical Society in attendance. 



The Agricultural Society provided a tent ; and, as we understand, shelving 

 and dishes also, for the exhibit of the Poniological Society, upon their grounds 

 from one to two miles from the city hall, in which the sessions of the Ponio- 

 logical society were held, involving two street railway fares each way. The 

 Agricultural Society neither offered nor paid any premiums upon any portion 

 of this exhibit. AVhile on the other hand, exhibitors were compelled to pay 

 an admittance of thirty-five cents when it became necessary to go in to put up 

 or care for their fruits; and even the examining committees of the Poniologi- 

 cal Society, in the discliarge of their duties as such, were compelled to buy 

 their admissions to the grounds. We presume no person cared specially for 

 the mere pittance required and paid in this manner ; but some, if not all con- 

 cerned, felt its exaction, under these circumstances, to be an utterly unjustifi- 

 able imposition. 



AVe feel obliged to say, moreover, that we are given to understand that this 

 exaction grows out of no neglect on the part of the pomologists of Western 

 New York, — that they had made arrangements for tlie exhibition, on the 

 grounds of the Agricultural Society, under the assurance that the desired 

 passes should be forthcoming; and that such pledge was repudiated at the last 

 moment. 



