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Saturday, June 27. 



Vice President Stoms in the chair. 



Mr. White, from the Special Committee on Market Restrictions, 

 submitted their report, which was, on motion, received and ordered 

 to be filed and Committee discharged. 



Mr. FooTE, from the Committee on Public Parks, asked for further 

 time. Granted. 



Elected to Membership. — John DeCamp and Lester Oaklt, of 

 Bank Lick, Ky. 



Professor Ward resumed his remarks upon the Honey-bee, which 

 contributed much to the interest of the meeting. 



Mr. Stoms, having called Mr. Foote to the chair, proceeded to 

 make some remarks in refutation of Mr. Graham's theory, advanced 

 last week in relation to the line of junction observable in the her- 

 maphrodite Strawberry, being a peculiarity indicative of its duplex 

 sexual character. Mr. Stoms regarded the theory as absurd and 

 preposterous, and did not wish the Society to be committed, by 

 silence, to any such doctrine ; and proceeded to show that the fact 

 claimed by Mr. Graham, in support of his theory, is not universally 

 true of the hermaphrodite berries, while it is found also to occur in 

 berries of plants not hermaphrodite. And to make the absurdity 

 of this transcendental position apparent, he would challenge Mr. 

 Graham to identify either of the following seven varieties of "well- 

 developed" berries as being the production of hermaphrodite plants, 

 viz: Iowa, Genessee, Large Early Scarlet, Boston Pine, Swainstone, 

 Plautboy and Alpines (red and v/hite). He further stated that the 

 most perfectly developed berries of the Longworth Prolific do not 

 show the line of junction, as alluded to by Graham, and those that 

 do are so isolated in this peculiarity as to have no parallel in any 

 other strawberry grown from hermaphrodite plants. Mr. Stoms' 

 remarks led to numerous other remarks and views from various 

 members touching the point presented. Mr. Graham was not 

 present to reply. 



The exhibition of flowers was extensive and beautiful. We think 

 that even Flora herself would have smiled in contemplation of the 

 tasteful tribute of floral beauty and fragrance laid at her shrine 

 from the garden of Mr. Heaver, on the Reading-road. The ofi"er- 

 ings must have proved most grateful to the Floral Goddess, both by 

 reason of their perfection and rarity. Here is Mr. Heaver's list: 

 Moss Roses: The Princess Adelaide, Alice Leroy, Mt. JEtna, Marbled, 



