408 Cincinnati Horticultural Society. \_Septemher, 



3. Summer Bergamot — hardly worthy of cultivation. 



The large red Siberian Crab, exhibited by E. J. Hooper, is the 

 finest variety of this kind of Crab they know of. It is a beautiful 

 little fruit, which is produced in rich clusters on the branches, and at 

 a distance resembles large and handsomi3 cherries. It is deservedly 

 highly esteemed for preserving. It also forms a vigorous, neat tree 

 of small size, and its blossoms, which are white, are produced in beau- 

 tiful profusion in the spring, and a large crop of fruit regularly 

 follows. 



The Belle of Brussels Pear — Too astringent, and only presents a 

 fine appearance for market. 



Red-streak Apple — Not of much value. 



Sweet June Apple — Good for a sweet apple. 



English Codling — Very fine and excellent for cooking, 



E. J. Hooper, Chairman. 

 Robert Reiley, 

 John Sayres, 

 William Heaver. 



Mr. Brace, for Mr. Cohoon, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, exhibited 

 specimens of Cohoon's Seedling Rhubarb, which measured, the stem 

 eight and three-quarters inches in circumference, and twenty-two 

 inches in length ; the leaf nine feet in circumference. The society 

 voted, unanimously, a vote of thanks to Mr. Cahoon for the exhibition 

 of the specimens. 



August 7. — Mr. Rintz presented the leaves of a seedling grapevine, 

 which ripens the fruit the 1st of August, and promises to be a good 

 bearer. A committee, consisting of G. Sleath, R. Buchanan and Mr. 

 Rintz, was appointed to present the fruit and make a report next 

 meeting on the quality of this interesting seedling. 



Mr. Buchanan read an extract from a letter received from a gentle- 

 man, a distinguished agriculturalist, of South Carolina, stating the 

 result of an experiment in producing molasses or sirup from the sugar 

 millet, or the grain known here as Egyptian Corn. 



The writer states that he has been grinding, on a primitive mill 

 made under his own instruction, the sugar millet for making sirup. 

 " I had half an acre planted, and only ground enough to try it. It 

 will do here, and it will also do in your climate at Cincinnati. It will 

 mature sooner than corn, and in any climate suited to Indian corn. A 

 fine sirup can be made of it at a cost of eighteen or twenty cents per 

 gallon. On an acre of land prepared as you would work it for sugar- 

 beets or carrots, you can, with less labor than used for corn, grow 



