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French Reinette Apple — Very much injured by the curculio ; of pleasant flavor ?, 

 rather more acid than the White Juneating, 



Holraan's Late Duke Cherry — Not near so good as the Early May Duke ; much 

 more acid. 



May Duke — early — Latest succession crop ; fine ; of large size, but not fully 

 ripe. A peculiarity of the tree is for the fruit to keep ripening for a continuance 

 of one month, at least. 



Cherry Currant — Very large, but seems more acid than the Red Dutch at this 

 time. 



The Plums exhibited were found pretty free from the stings of the curculio. 

 Some (Mr. Considine's), were syringed with a solution of lime and sulphur ; and 

 others (Mr. Ernst's), were grown in pavement, and near a house where there was 

 much passing and repassing. 



H. Brower (omitted in lastreport), two varieties of (gooseberry from Dr. J. Eng- 

 lish. One very large — not quite ripe — yellowish ; the other rather smaller, but 

 ripe ; green color ; delicious. They had been kept free from mildew by severe 

 head-pruning, [f this mildew does not attack the fruit when quite young it is 

 not very injurious — it can be picked off; still we believe that there is no gen- 

 eral and certain plan for the foreign Gooseberry to escape the mildew. Mr. J. 

 C. Ferris states, however, that he has one of the English perfectly free but he 

 has lost the name. It is one out of the three hundred varieties. 



E. J. HOOPER, Chairman. 



Under the order of "Miscellaneous Business" the members held a most inter- 

 esting conversation in relation to the rot and mildew of the grape, in which Dr. 

 MosHEB remarked that the vineyards on the river bottoms were almost entirely 

 ruined, as to the present crop, while the highland vineyards were comparatively 

 untouched. 



Mr. McWiLLiAMS stated that the Isabella is quite free from any disease ; and 

 Dr. MosHER also stated that in the midst of his vineyard he had about a half- 

 acre of the Schuylkill (erroneously called Cape Grape), which were untouched, 

 while around them the Catawba was everywhere affected. 



The President read a communication from Mr. Longworth on the Strawberry, 

 having reference to a theory held by one of the largest strawberry-growers of 

 Pittsburg. On motion the communication was ordered to be filed and a commit- 

 tee, consisting of Dr. Mosher, J. W. Ward and W. Sto.ms, was appointed to take 

 the same into consideration and report thereon. Adjourned. 



Saturday, July 25. 



On motion, the minutes of the last meeting were corrected so as to ^how 

 that the basket of flowers, said to be presented by H. Heflin, were presented by 

 Herman Herung, and that the same gentleman received the first premium of $2 

 for hollyhocks. They were then adopted. 



A communication was read by Dr. Warder from John T. Hamilton, of Madison, 

 Ind., in reference to furnishing seedling fruits to the Society. Referred to the 

 Corresponding Secretary, 



A letter was read from Mr. Stanton, of Richmond, Ind., saying that he had a 

 number of young trees that had not borne ; that he headed them in with the object 

 only of changing the form of the tops, and was agreeably surprised to find that 



