EDITOR'S TABLE. 



J^ortuultural Socutus. 



The Cincinnati Horticultural Society met Saturday, Sept. lOtb, 1853, Dr. Mosher presiding. 



Minutes of the last meeting read and approved. 



M. T. Winter presented two reports of the Philadelphia Horticultural Society ; one of them 

 on Insects was referred to the committee on Insects ; the. other on Fruits to the Fruit committee. 



The following gentlemen were appointed a special committee, as the fruit committee was 

 absent : Messrs. Buchanan, Kelly, Ilatcb, Hill, Graham, McAvoy, Duhme, Anthony, and Dr. Warder. 



The President appointed the following gentlemen as delegates to the North Western Pomological 

 Association, to be held at Chicago on the 4th and 'Zth, inclusiye, of October: R. Buchanan, 

 Freeman G. Gary, Dr. W. N. Brisbane, Dr. J. A. Warder, Wm. Heaver, A. H. Ernst. 



Mr. Hatch, of the Wine committee, reported a communication from Mr. Longworth, bearing 

 date August 27, 1853, in regard to the weight of mu9t of the Clinton grape, and propounding 

 the inquiry " whether the weight of the must in all grapes is a certain indication of the saccharine 

 quality of the grapes, and the strength of the wine it will produce." 



As this question will require a careful examination, and a perfect test by experiments, in order 

 to arrive at a satisfactory solution of the subject, the committee respectfully request the Society 

 to refer the matter to a select committee of grape growers, with a request that such committee 

 would, in the course of the present season, make all the experiments necessary to the ascertain- 

 ment of the facts involved in the subject. 



The committee think the subject an important one, and hope that the reference will be made, 

 and that such committee will report the result of their inquires and tests to the Society at as 

 early a period as may be practicable. 



The following gentlemen were appointed said committee : Dr. Ehefus, Dr. Warder, and R. 

 Buchanan. 



The following should have been received with the very fine pears exhibited last Saturday 

 ■without a name ; it is from Thorp, Smith, Hanchett, & Co., whose contributions are most cordially 

 welcome : 



"Syracuse, August 27, 1853. 



"We yesterday directed to the Cincinra'i Horticultural Society a small box with two speci- 

 mens of the Hosenschenck pear. They were pulled green and packed away in buckwheat 

 chaff, and have imbibed a musty taste from the chaff. The fruit is large ; flesh exceedingly 

 juicy, melting, and refreshing, as good as any Virgalieu we have tasted for five yeai-s, and equal- 

 ing the Onondaga in every respect. When fully matured, they are of a rich, golden yellow, 

 with a beautiful red cheek on the sunny side. They are certainly the best summer pear in 

 America. Ripens from the tenth to the last of August. We can give you a full history if desired. 

 The trees have been so full this season that the fruit is below size." 



The Secretary presented a schedule of premiums offered at the Annual Exhibition of the Ken- 

 tucky Horticultural Society, to be held in Louisville on the 28th and 29th of September, 1853. 

 On motion, all that can go m.ay be appointed by the President delegates to this and other exhi- 

 bitions. 



The following invitations were read, and, on motion, adopted, and the thanks of the Society 

 ordered to be presented by the Corresponding Secretary : 



" New Haven, August 20, 1853, 

 " To the Cincinnati Horticultural Society — Gentlemen : — At a stated meeting, the Board of Direc- 

 tors instructed the Secretary to invite your Society to visit, by delegation, the Annual Fair of the 

 New Haven Horticultural Society, to be held at the State House, in New Haven, on the 28th and 

 29th of September next. Very respectfully, Geo. Gabriel, Secretary." 



.John P. Foote, Robert W. Burnet, and George Graham, were appointed delegates. 



"The Butler County Agricultural Society, through John M. Millikan, extend a cordial invitation 

 to the Cincinnati Horticultural Society to attend their third Annual Fair, at Hamilton, Ohio, on 

 the 15th and 17th proximo; and appoint John A. Warder and George Graham on the fruit com- 



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