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comes from one's best thoughts, I sit down on my porch and look the land- 

 scape o'er. 



Thursday Morning Session. 



The first business was the consideration of D. W. Hinman's complaint 

 against the American Express Company for careless and destructive handling 

 of fruit, such as he witnessed at Holland. A committee — John Sailor, D. W. 

 Hinman and Geo. Hosford — was appointed to take the matter in hand. Tbey 

 subsecpiently made a report, submitting the following as a resolution, and it 

 was unanimously adopted: 



In view of the fact that fruit is often handled with undue carelessness by express 

 companies and by railways, and thereby its value very much depreciated and often 

 ruined, we hereby earnestly urge upon all such companies the necessity of more careful 

 handling of fruit and an honest respect for the property of others. 



John Sailor, 

 D. W. Hinman, 

 Geo. Hosford, 



Committee. 

 The first discussion of the morning session was upon 



PEDIGREE AND PROGRESS IN FRUIT CULTURE. 

 LED BY C. ENGLE, PAW PAW. 



It is with great diffidence that I appear before you with a paper upon this 

 subject, about which so little is generally, and, I may say, positively known. 

 And yet I am a thorough believer in pedigree for fruits ; as much so as for 

 horses, cattle or sheep. Perhaps I could do no better than to give you my 

 experience that you may judge whether I have just reason for the faith that is 

 within me. Twenty years ago I began planting pits and seeds to raise my own 

 nursery stock. The pits (peach) were mostly from Crawford's Early peaches. 

 When budding time came, I noticed a good many of the seedlings had the 

 general stocky growth and peculiar yellowish green foliage of the Crawford's 

 Early. Some of them, about twenty, I set in the orchard without budding. 

 When they came to bear every one of them bore full as fine fruit for aught I 

 could see, as the budded trees, and some of them I thought a little superior. 

 They did not ripen all at the same season ; some were a week or ten days be- 

 hind, none ahead of the time of Crawford's Early, but all had the same general 

 character of the parent fruit, large size, high color and rich yellow flesh. I was 

 so well pleased with the result that I planted a lot more of the same kind to 

 set in the orchard without budding, also a lot of Hill's Chili and Barnard pits, 

 and some Concord and Delaware grape seeds. At one year old I set in the 

 orchard 500 of each variety of the seedling peaches. In the not very elegant 

 but expressive vernacular of the day, I did not "get left" on a single tree of 

 Crawford's Early. All were good, and two of them I thought worthy of a 

 name, and so called them respectively Pres. Lyon and Golden Beauty. The 

 former was about one-fourth larger, higher colored and in my judgment better 

 in quality than its parent, ripening at the same time, but unfortunately it. 



