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— he liad known tlie Winkfield to sell for 75 

 cents per dozen, and the Glont Morceau for three 

 dollars per dozen. P. Barry would plant the 

 Winkfield in a selection of a dozen sorts, and 

 valued it highlj- — the Glout Morceau had dis- 

 appointed some cultivators in Western New- 

 York — it was not the best grower, and did not 

 always mature well. W;.,. Reid and others 

 thought it a good grower. 



The third best winter jtiea;- was asked for, and 

 the Vicar of Winkfield was agreed to stand ne.\t 

 to Winter Nelis and Glout Morceau. 



C. M. Ilovey stated that several Flemish pears 

 were apt to have small and worthless fruit among 

 them, among which he named Spoelberg, Wur- 

 temberg, Marie Louise and Passe Colmar — he 

 knew of no American pears liable to this defect. 

 P. Barry cited the Stevens' Genesee, and 

 Deaiborn's Seedling, as being similarly defec- 

 tive. 



M. Kelly, of Cincinnati, had not found the 

 American pears hardier than the European — 

 in a locality where the tree is strongly liable to 

 injury. 



C. M. ITovcy found but few American pears 

 tender, and but few that did well on quince 

 stocks — indeed, very few of any origin did well 

 on quince — but he did not know tlie .same i)ro- 

 portion of American as of European for this 

 mode of culture. 



C. M. Ilovey stated that Dearborn's Seedling 

 failed on the (jnince after a few years — that he 

 should dig up his trees, as they had become an 

 eye sore. T. C. Ma.xwell had large trees of the 

 Dearborn's Seedling, which did well on quince. 

 Wm. Reid knew trees of the Andrews ten feet 

 high, which grew and did well. These are both 

 American seedlings. 



P. Barry thought more e.\i)erience was need- 

 ed on this subject — the stacks at first used here 

 were not of good quality — and he thought if 

 the trees were placed in good soil, properly 

 manured, pruned, and not allowed to overbear, 

 that many would succeed well, which would 

 otherwise fail. 



The best early pear being called for, C. M. 

 Ilovey and P. Barry named the Doyenne d'ete— 

 Wm. Reid recommended the Madeleine as ear- 

 lier—but it was not found so at Boston and 

 s(er, where the Madeleine was regarded 

 ud best. 



The two best market cherries being asked for, 

 early and late, most agreed in recommending 

 the Early Purple Guigne and Downer. P. Bai- 

 ry named the Early Purple Guigne and Belle 

 Magnifique. Wm. Reid named the Mayduke 

 as early. The Sweet Montmorency was regard- 

 ed by C. M. Hovey as a good late sweet cherry. 

 P. Barry thought it would not sell, when C. M. 

 Hovey stated that he had known it to sell for 

 fifty cents per quart. 



Second Evening. — The superior hardiness 

 of seedling peaches over budded ones, was pro- 

 posed as a subject for discussion. 



W. Tracy stated that peaches could not be 

 rai.sed at Utica except within the city, the warm 

 and moist valley of the Mohawk preventing a 

 sufficient ripening of the wood ; while at Clinton, 

 on higher and more exposed ground, crops were 

 frequently obtained. He stated that two trees 

 within the city, fine seedlings, which were well 

 shaded at the roots from the influence of the 

 sun, bore abundant crops. 



C. M. Hovey considered the protection af- 

 forded them, as a reason for their successful 

 bearing, without regarding the circumstance of 

 their not being worked. A friend in Kentucky 

 had sent him buds of one of his finest peaches, 

 a fruit which often grew twelve inches in cir- 

 cumference — the buds grew, but the giowth was 

 so poor, and they gummed so badly, as to be 

 perfectly worthless. He had generally found 

 seedlings more tender than budded varieties, 

 being often killed at the ends of the branches, 

 while most budded sorts escape even to tlie very 

 tips. 



Dr. Warder of Cincinnati, in explanation of 

 the reason that ])each trees were killed the past 

 winter in Kentucky, stated that the tljermome- 

 ter the past winter, in the same region had fal- 

 len to 22° below zero. F. R. Elliott said it had 

 fallen to 19° below at Cleveland, a part of the 

 ci'op escaping. 



J. J. Thomas stated that the thermometer at 

 Macedon, in Western New- York, l)ad sunk 

 during the past winter to IS*^ below zero, which 

 had not before occurred for many years — that 

 about one-half the peach buds on his grounds 

 had been destroyed, which was a smaller j)ro- 

 portion tlian in other winters when the cold was 

 several degrees less severe. This result he 

 ascribed to the uniformhj cold weather, without 



