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to raise the Worden grape. It is larger than the Concord, juicer, and 

 ripens earlier than the Concord, but it has all the faults of that popular 

 grape, the skin being tender, thus making it a poor shipping grape.'' 

 Mr. Carpenter, of Ohio, spoke of high culture, and said he believed 

 that it helped produce better fruit and prevented rot. Mr. Tamari, one 

 of the Japanese Commissioners to the New Orleans Exposition, gave 

 an interesting account of grape culture in Japan. 



]\Ir. C. A. Green, of Rochester, read an interesting paper on the 

 sensibility of plants. He argued that the fact that they have sexual 

 characteristics is an indication that they are not like the rocks, without 

 sensibility. He said that a grape vine will reach out eagerly for an- 

 other vine, but never for branches of its own growth, and that the 

 roots of a vine will shoot out toward a well, or a bone, or a manure pile» 

 like a dog going to its dinner. The blackberry has been crossed with 

 the raspberry, thus producing a pomological mule. Mr. Yan Deman 

 said that the peach and plum have also been crossed, and he gave the 

 resultant mule the same hard reputation that the mule of the animal 

 kingdom possesses. 



SECOND DAY'S SESSION. 



The American Horticultural Society began the second day's ses- 

 sion at the Tabernacle Wednesday morning. The change from the 

 Board of Trade rooms was made because the headquarters of Tuesday 

 were found to be too noisy for the successful transaction of the busi- 

 ness of the association. The change delayed the opening of the ses- 

 sion, and it was 11 o'clock before President Earle called the convention 

 to .order. The paper read at the morning meeting took the protection 

 of crops in time of drouth as a subject, and was presented by Mr. John 

 M. Smith, of Green Bay, Wis., President of the Wisconsin Horticul- 

 tural Society. In his address Mr. Smith said: "When God placed 

 man upon the earth he gave him hands with which to work and brains 

 to direct his hands. We may justly congratulate our civilization on its 



