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Mr. Tibbitts has been experimenting and thinks the opinions 
expressed respecting Captain Jack correct. Has some thirty vari- 
eties and considers the Glendale the best for foreign market and 
the Captain Jack the best for home market. Green Prolific and 
the Wilson are the best. 
President Grimes spoke very highly of the Captain Jack. Mr. 
Tibbetts had fruited Sharpless one year and was well pleased with 
it—his soil a clay loam. Thought the Prouty seedling a good one. 
Col. Cheney gave good satisfaction with him on heavy soil and un- 
der complete fertilizing. With all his experience still acknowl- 
edges the Wilson as king. Thinks the Wilson and Green Prolific 
the two most profitable berries yet grown. 
The revision of the strawberry list was now taken up. 
The Counters de Horicourt was decided identical with Downers 
Prolific, ann was stricken from the list. 
Upon motion of Mr. Pearce it was decided to name a list of fine 
varieties for general cultivation, to rank m the order in which they 
were placed on the list with the following result: 
Ist. Wilson’s Albany, unanimous. 
2d. Capt. Jack 7 for, 4 against. 
3d. Douner’s Prolific, 10 ‘* 0 * 
4th. Green Prolific. 1 Se OB) 
5th. Cresent Seedling 7‘ 4 * 
RECOMENDED FOR GENERAL TRIAL. 
ist. Seth Boyden, 6 for, 2 against. 
2d. Sharpless, 1 heel er 
RECOMENDED FOR TRIAL BY AMATEURS. 
1st. Glendale, 7 for, 1 against. 
2d. Windsor Chief, Ouies iQue hy 
The following presented by Mr. Gibbs was adopted: 
Staminates and Pistillates must be planted together, or with Hermorphadites 
for cross fertilization. 
A paper styled Apple trees and climate, by J. W. Boxell, was 
read by the secretary and ordered printed in transactions as follows: 
APPLE TREES AND CLIMATE. 
Secretary Minnesota State Horticultural Society: 
Dear Sir: I haye been looking over the proceedings of the meeting neld at 
Minneapolis last January, and I find that my ground has been occupied. No* 
