MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 43 
TUFSDAY EVENING. 
Meeting called to order at 7:25. 
Pomological. 
Mr. Hodges being absent, and his paper not at hand, Mr. Elliot 
read the report of the delegates to the meeting of the American 
Pomological Society. 
On motion of Mr. Jewell the report was ordered incorporated in 
the Transactions. It is as follows: 
REPORT OF DELEGATES TO THE MEETING OF THE AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY. 
The biennial session of the American Pomological Society, held at 
Chicago in September last, was a grand success. The many attending 
appreciating the fine exhibition of fruits, from British America to the 
Mexican Gulf—from the Pacific Slope to the extreme limit of fruit cul- 
ture in New Brunswick. Here were mingled the fruits of tropical and 
temperate zones. It is said to have been the finest exhibition ever held 
on this continent. 
Apples. 
The king, the apple, was here large, rosy red, blushing like a maiden’s 
cheek, lustrous and spicy, full of the nectar that our boys and girls enjoy 
of a long winter evening. Varieties too numerous to mention. Many 
new seedlings of great promise were shown that mayhap will swell the 
already large list. 
Pears. 
Pears were presented in great variety, some exhibitors’ lists numbering 
among the hundreds. Marshall P. Wilder had a fine collection of 270 
varieties, which deserve the highest honors. Seedlings were numerous, 
and one collection from B.S. Fox, San Jose, California, was considered 
extremely fine. Specimens from historical] trees, collected by Robert Man- 
ning, Salem, Mass., including the Endicot, planted about the year 1630, 
an orange pear tree 285 years old, a Werder grafted April 19, 1775, and 
a tree planted by Anthony Thatcher in 1840, were exhibited. 
Plums. 
Plums from western New York were exceedingly fine, reminding us of 
our boyhood days, when in Maine we had Gage, Damson and Purple plums 
of rare excellence. 
