JANUARY MEETING. 



The January meeting was held at the Society's rooms, iu 

 Fuller's Bank, January 3d, 1871. 

 Vice President Holt, in the chair. 

 Minutes of last meeting read and approved. 



THE FRUIT EXHIBITION". 



Mr, James H. Martin of Grand Rapids town, had a fine dis- 

 play of apples, including splendid samples of the Cayuga Red- 

 streak, Steele's Red, Yellow Bellflower, Jonathan, Swaar, 

 Northern Spy, Esopus Spitzenburg, Rhode Island Greeniiig, 

 and Gloria Mundi. 



Mr. Holt brought the Redstreak, Swaar, Greening, Jona- 

 than, Wagener, and Buerre Diel pear. 



Mr. Houghtaling presented a seedling resembling the 

 Greening, represented to be a good keeper, Yellow Belleflower, 

 Spitzenburg, and a small apple which Mr. H. called the Lady 

 Apple. 



PROSPECT OF FRUIT. 



Mr. Husted said he was sorry to say that he had fears that 

 the extreme cold had injured the peach buds. In many sec- 

 tions the thermometer had fallen to twenty degrees below zero, 

 and it was held that at fifteen degrees below zero, peach trees 

 are in danger. He represented, however, that if half of the 

 buds produced, there would be plenty of peaches, as the trees 

 were uuusually full of buds. He had had a long experience, 

 but he never knew fruit trees so well ripened, and so well pre- 

 pared to resist the cold of winter. 



A communication was read from George Parmalee of Old 

 Mission, Grand Traverse County, dated December 12, 1870, in 



