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Mason's Stranger:— Virginia, * *— eastern and southern. 



Wine Sap :— Virginia, * * ; District Columbia, * * ; Maffy- 

 lana, * * ; Michigan, * ; Kansas, * * ; Northern Virginia, * * ; 

 Iowa, * *; Kentucky, * *; Southern Illinois, *; IlUnois, *; 

 Nebraska, * * ; New Jersey, *. 



Eall's Janet:— Virginia, * * ; Maryland, * * ; District Colum- 

 bia, * * ; Illinois, * ; Kansas, * * ; Kentucky, * * ; Nebras- 

 ka, * * ; Iowa, * =■' ; Illinois, * ; Southern Illinois, * *. 



Maiden's Blush :— Virginia, * * ; Kansas, * * ; New Jer- 

 sey, * * ; Massachusetts, * ; Maryland, * ; Pennsylvania, * * ; 

 Kentucky, *. 



Fallowater:— Virginia, * *; Illinois, * *; Kansas, * *; New- 

 Jersey, * * ; Pennsylvania, * * ; Iowa, * * ; Michigan, * *. 



Albemarle Pippin :— Virginia, * * ; Kansas, * *. 



York Imperial: — Virginia, * * ; District Columbia, * ; 

 Maryland, * ; Pennsylvania, * * . 



During the morning session Mr. Allen, President of the Vir- 

 ginia Horticultural and Pomological Society, invited the Amer- 

 ican Pomological Society to a banquet to be given in the 

 evening at Assembly Hall. The invitation was cordially 

 accepted. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The President called the Convention to order at half-past 

 3 o'clock. 



COMMITTEE OK PREMIUMS OK GRAPES. 



The Committee on Grapes presented the following report: 

 We, the undersigned, appointed to award premiums on 

 American grapes, as per special premiums contributed by 

 Charles Downing, Gen. E. L. Page, Hon. John B. Whitehead, 

 Messrs. Downward, Anderson & Co., and Messrs. Chas. T. 

 Wortham & Co., respectfully submit the following report : 



1. No collection of twenty varieties of American grapes 

 found. 



