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fruit, but it is not profitable for market. It does best on light 

 soil. The Baldwin we retain amoug the varieties we recom- 

 mend. It yaries in character more than any other fruit, 

 according to the soil in which it is planted. Peck's Pleasant 

 is a desirable apple. The Esopus Spitzenburg is a valuable 

 apple, but the tree is tender, and on the whole not to be 

 recommended as a market apple. The Golden Russet is a 

 good winter apple. This apple does well buried. It keeps it 

 from wilting. The Northern Spy is a great favorite, and is 

 increasing in favor. It is tardy in coming into bearing. The 

 best fine market varieties are the Rhode Island Greening, 

 Northern Spy, Golden Russet, Baldwin, and Wagener. The 

 Wagener is higher colored on light soil than on heavy soils. 

 The Wagener will keep sound till August. 



CRAB JELLIES. 



Mr. Husted — I have gome jellies from the Transcendent 

 Crab. It is quite an ornamental tree for fruit yards. Here is 

 jelly from the old red crab; makes a thick jelly, although not 

 as good a flavor, perhaps, as the Hyslop. 



E. Johnson, from Walker, exhibited some Dominie, Red 

 Canada, and Swaar apples, and asked for a name for one kind. 



GRAPES — WINE-MAKING. 



The President said : It is expected that we take a vote in 

 relation to the grapes we recommend for growth in Western 

 Michigan, but I doubt the propriety of this, except in one or 

 two varieties. The Eumelan, the Hartford Prolific, and lona, 

 and even the Isabella, I doubt if we can recommend them. 

 I could vote for the Concord and the Delaware, and that 

 would exhaust my voting to-day. Prof. Agassiz made the 

 following remarks in reference to wine-making : 



Professor Agassiz — I was born and have lived two-thirds of 

 my life in a grape-growing country, and I feel deeply interested 

 in the question, how the gi-ape shall be grown here successfully. 

 But I think it cannot be grown with perfect success until a prej- 



