STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. ts 
around Kalouga and Simbrisk, will best meet our wants. On the same 
principle the varieties of the pear I have imported from the hot, dry climate 
of the interior, have stood the heat and drought of the past summer much 
etter than those from St. Petersburg. 
Yours, Fraternally, 
J. L. BUDD. 
DISCUSSION CONTINUED. 
The letter was ordered to be placed on file for publication, and 
the discussion continued. 
Mr. Day. ast summer some Transcendents into which 
Duchess had been top-grafted came out a week later than the 
other Transcendents. May not crossing of the apple and Siberian 
crab have occurred through some such circumstance? 
Mr. Fuller. The crossing of varieties does not entail loss of 
fertility in the offspring. 
Mr. Pearce. I don’t think there is any improbability in apple 
and crab crossing. We can, by mulching, hold back the blossom- 
ing of the crab to that of the apple. Have done this, but did not 
carry out the remainder of the plan, which was to grow seedlings 
from such cross and to bud their buds into bearing trees to determ- 
ine sooner the character of the fruit, judging first as to probable 
value of the seedling from its bark, bud and leaf. 
Mr. Emery explained their use of the term ‘‘ hybrid.’ 
Mr. Woolsey. I have seedlings from a little crab grown on a 
tree on which Duchess had been grafted. They produce larger 
frait than the little crab, but none larger than the Hyslop. 
Motion was made and carried to close the discussion, and the 
society adjourned to meet at 1:30 P. M. 
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. 
The meeting was called to order by Pres. Grimes at 2 o’clock. 
RUSSIAN APPLES. 
MR. DART’S REPORT. 
Reports on Russian varieties of apples, being the first order of 
business, was proceeded with. 
Mr. Dart read his report, as follows: 
