Elhviiiif^or & Barry, Rochester, Apples, 76 varieties. Pears, 150 var 



A. Frost & Co., " 



C. L. Iloag, Lockport, 



H. K. Hooker & Co., Rochester, 



Hooker, Farley, & Co., " 



A. Hauipton, East Hani])ur<;h, 



Looniis it Wliitman, IJyron, 



Munloy & Mason, Buffalo, 



J. S. Miller, 



H. P. Norton, Brockport, 



A. Pinney, Clarkson, 



G. G. Pratt, Buffiilo, Grapes, 9 



PenlioUl & Burrill, Lockport, Apples, 39 



J no. J. Thomas, Maccdon, do. 36 



"Will. P. Townsend, Lockport, do- 10 



The Chairman read several invitations to the society to at'end exhibitions, &c. After 

 which a discussion took place in regard to the place of holding the annual meeting. 

 After several places had been named, and advocated by different members, a ballot was 

 taken, and Rochester decided upon for that purpose. 



On motion of 3Ir. H. E. Hooker, a vote of thanks to the Ci^y Council, for their liberal- 

 ity in giving the Society the use of the Hall, and remarks complimentary to the Buffalo 

 members for their exertions in making the necessary arrangements for the meeting were 

 made by Messrs. Hooker, Barry and others, and after transacting some unimportant bu- 

 siness, the Society adjourned. Jno. B. Eaton, Secretary. 



do. 74 



A Short Gossip about the West, axd the Fruit Grower's Meeting at Burlington. 

 — Ml/ Dear Sir: — I have been much away from home of late, and now that I am at 

 home I find myself quite t.X) busy to indulge in writing, yet I must give you a few notes 

 concerning the West and AVestern fruits and Fruit growers. First allow me to congratu- 

 late you that you have travelled the country between the Lakes and the Missisippi. I 

 am sure that you have enjoyed your journey to Chicago, and return home, as I have 

 done, thankful that you had lived to see the Garden of America, those vast prairies, the 

 valley of the Mississippi — where nature has prepared a soil of the most wonderful fer_ 

 tility— the deepest and richest that the plough or the spade ever entered. All this you 

 will rsadily assent to now that yau have visited this wonderful country, and seen for 

 yourself the growth of the trees and the size of the fruits. 



From Chicago to Burlington on the Mississippi is a delightful days ride. You leave 

 Chicago at 9 o'clock in the morning and reach Burlington in the evening about 8, having 

 had ample time to discuss a good dinner at Mendota. The road is in excellent order> 

 fine coaches, polite conductors and every thing in excellent trim. The countr}' is prairie 

 nearly all the way ; but do not not suppose it is monotonous, for on either side, villages, 

 bran new and prosperous looking, enclosed farms with immsense corn fields like forests 

 of poplars, great herds of cattle on the open prairies, luxuriating among the richest 

 pasture, bits of woodland looming up here and there like islands in the ocean — these all 

 invest the landscape with sufficient variety. It was all new to me and I enjoyed it right 

 well, as I also did the prodigious stories which were related by every new passenger we 

 picked up, concerning the growth of towns, prices of lands, &c., &c. Sometimes I lay 

 stock of reading material when starting on ajourney, but here I had no des 

 except in the book of nature. A new field of study was spread before me. 



