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Executive Committee. 
On motion of Mr. Jordan, the President was empowered to ap- 
point the Executive Committee, and the following were appointed : 
Norman Buck, Wyman Elliot, P. A. Jewell, O. F. Brand and J. 8S. 
Harris, the President and Secretary being members ex-officio. 
Delegates to Meeting of the State Agricultural Society. 
Mr. Jewell moved that the President appoint the delegates. The 
motion was carried, but afterwards rescinded, and on another mo- 
tion, Pres. T. M. Smith was appointed chairman of the delegation 
with power to appoint co-delegates. 
The President appointed as co-delegates, E. H. S. Dartt, A. C. 
Hamilton, Col. J. H. Stevens and Chas. Y. Lacy. 
Mr. Dartt declined and, on motion, the delegates were empow- 
gred to appoint substitutes. 
New Siberians and Hybrids. 
The election of officers concluded, Mr. Jewell gave the substance 
of his paper on Crab-apples and Hybrids verbally, promising to 
prepare a written paper in time for printing in the Transactions, 
as ordered by the Society. 
The following is the paper : 
NEW SIBERIANS AND HYBRIDS. 
The peculiarities of the old Siberian sorts are clearly defined, but their 
improved descendants present no unvarying characteristics of either fruit 
or tree by which their Siberian parentage can in all cases be determined. 
Seven years ago I sent the fruit of the Maiden’s Blush crab to F. R. Elli- 
ott, of Cleveland, Ohio. In acknowledging its receipt, he expressed the 
opinion that it was not a crab, and mildly cautioned me against imposing 
on the public by sending it out as such. And yet this condemned variety 
was from Siberian seed, and the same lot of seed as a half-dozen other 
varieties sent him at the same time, the Siberian character of which he did 
not question. The fruit of the Maiden’s Blush does not resemble the old 
Siberian sorts, except in size. The stem is very short, the texture fine, and 
the flavor very pleasant. But the tree in texture, ripening of the wood, 
and glossy appearance of both twigs and foliage, is clearly Siberian. 
Chase’s Winter Sweet, on the contrary, is in tree apparently a common 
apple and in fruit a crab. As the result of much observation, I conclude 
that none of the improved Siberians retain all of the characteristics of the 
old sorts, and that there are few if any that do not either in tree or fruit 
exhibit some Siberian peculiarities. I must therefore regard it as slightly 
