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of poor color, though it at first did well; at Benton Harbor canes quite 

 strong, ripens with Turner, firmer and better color than either Turner or 

 Cuthbert and brought much better prices; grows slowly and of no consequence; 

 there are several strains of Marlboro. 



Lucretia Dewberry— Mr. Lyon has had good crops for three or four years; 

 best dewberry he knows; is not derived from wild dewberry, but is a trailing 

 variety of the high blackberry, may be a hybridization of the two; fruits well 

 at Ionia, but turns red and sour; two weeks earlier than any blackberry. 



Niagara Grape — Rots when the Concord does; white grapes are not more 

 subject to rot than others. 



Belmont Strawberry — One member only had fruited it and found it very 

 promising; others were pleased with quality of the plants. 



Golden Queen Raspberry — Fine color, a yellow Cuthbert ; not so good as 

 Brinckle's orange. 



Hilbourn Blackcap — Less seedy than others and of fine quality, but not yet 

 well tested. 



The secretary read the following: 



NOTES ON SOME NEW APPLES. 



BY T. H. IIOSKINS, M. D., OF VERMONT. 



Fameuse Sucree* 



This apple was first brought to notice by the report of a committee on seed- 

 ling apples (consisting of the Rev. Robert Hamilton and Charles Gibb, Esq.), 

 to the Montreal Horticultural Society, in 18 ?5. In the fall of 1877 I, having 

 seen and tasted the apple at the Montreal society's fair, procured cions from 

 (as I supposed) the original tree in the orchard of the Hon. E. Prud'homme, 

 near Montreal. Unfortunately, through a mistake in cutting, much the larger 

 part fand, as I supposed for some time, all) of these cions were cut from neigh- 

 boring trees of the common Fameuse. Later I find that I have five or six trees of 

 the true Fameuse Sucree, several of which bore the present season. The tree is to 

 all appearance a seedling of Fameuse, and is quite as hardy, perhaps a little more 

 so. It bears as early and as well as its parent. The fruit as grown here is in 

 season from the middle of October, lasting about a month. It has the fault 

 of spotting quite as much as its parent, but when perfect is a most elegant as 

 well as most delicious fruit. It is full medium in size, roundish oblate, very 

 dark red, resembling polished rosewood. The flesh is white, deeply stained 

 with red. It is very tender in flesh, at once mildly sub-acid and sugary, and 

 must stand among the very first of dessert apples. Its flavor resembles that of 

 a rich strawberry ice-cream. In places where it spots but little it would prove a 

 most profitable fancy apple to grow, as it conjoins the highest beauty with the 

 greatest excellence of dessert quality. Its skin is firm, and the apple bears 

 transportation very well. 



Mcintosh Reel. 



This is, I think, without doubt, another seedling of the Fameuse. It origi- 

 nated on the north bank of the upper St. Lawrence in Dundas county, Out. 

 The original tree is said to be about 50 years old, but the variety has not been 



♦Specimens were shown of this apple sent by Dr. Hoskins and admirably preserved. 



