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farm of Mr. Millee, Clermont county; the Ohio Everbearing Raspberry, second crop, 

 by Mr. Hooper, and a Bigarrcau Cherry (very late), by Col. Caldwell. 



REPORT OP FRUIT COMMITTER. 



Apples — Williams' Early; passably good. Williams' Apple, a high, rich aromatic 

 flavor; rifh and tender. An apple from Mr. Wells, supposed to be the Horse Apple; 

 large, fine flesh; an agreeable, rather strong snb-acid; veiy productive, vary large and a 

 good market fruit. Benoni — very high flavored; sub-acid, sweet prevailing; very tender 

 aud excellent cooking. Beauty of Kent — rather too acid; laige aiul handsome; very 

 conical in shape; showy for nuirket. Red Astrachan — most beautiful, but deficient iu 

 rich flavor; a good deal of acid. Gi'aveustein — large; riclily and distinctly red striped. 



Bingham Plum — From Mr. Heaver; of good size; yellow when ripe; rich and very 

 sweet, and very like the Green Gage and Prince's Early Harvest. 



Osborn's Summer Pear — Very good, sweet and delicious. Dearborn's Seedling One 



of our best early fruits. Bloodgood — Lively, sprightly, sweet and very agreeable. Jar- 

 gonelle — Not worth cultivating here; rots too soon. Kirtlaud's Seedling Pear — Melting, 

 juicy and very good flavored; a native pear, raised from the famed Scckel; very hardy, 

 like its progenitor, and more productive. 



Dunand's Purple Plum — A rich production and very good fruit. George IV — 

 Sample rich and very tender, juicy and delicious fruit. Large Red Siberian, 

 Crab — Very beautiful, waxy looking, red and yellow, excellent for preserves and 



jelly- 



A very juicy, rich Peach, from Mr. White — Valuable for its earliness, large size 

 and fine quality. 



.lulienne Pear — One of the best early Pears, but not so early as the Summer 

 Butter, and not better in flavor — hardly as good. 



Early StraAvberry Apple — A fine sprightly and very agreeable fruit, nangs long 

 on the tree ; ripens very conveniently in succession for family use. A Seedling 

 Apple from Mr. Orange. Not yet ripe, but promises well. 



Saturday, August 22. 



Vice-President Hooper in the chair. 



Dr. MosHER off'ered the following resolutions : 



Resolved, That all fruits, flowers, etc., brought to this Society at the weekly 

 meeting be exhibited on tables in front of the President's chair, acd that they 

 remain there untouched, except by the appropriate committees, till after adjourn- 

 ment. If any particular specimen demand a special examination the committee 

 shall take the same to a private room to prepare a report thereon. All specimens 

 that contributors wish to preserve shall be labeled " Reserved." 



After a discussion of the foregoing, which was ofi'ered with a view to obviate 

 the confusion attending the public examination of fruits and flowers on exhibi- 

 tion, the resolution was adopted. 



Mr. James McGrew, of Campbell County, Ey., and Mr. Jon.v R. Davy, of 

 Branch Hill, Clermont County, were elected to membership. 



The Secretary made announcement that he had received the circular of the 

 Agricultural and Mechanical Exhibition of Missouri, to be opened at St. Louis, 

 on the 28th of September, and that arrangements had been made whereby per- 

 sons attending the exhibition could make the round trip at half fare. 



