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— Russian Apples, etc., etc. I will not take time to describe them 

 here. They will come in for notice elsewhere in our proceedings. 



The result of the exhibition was that we were accorded by unan- 

 imous judgment of the committee the honor of having the largest 

 and best collection of apples at the meeting and awarded the Wild- 

 er medal on our general collection of fruit. 



The Duchess apples of the central stack were selected by a com- 

 mittee of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and entered 

 by them and awarded a first premium on their part in the name of 

 €harles Gould, of Central Point, who grew the best ones; and the 

 same committee also entered our grapes and gave them their second 

 premium offered for best twenty variecies in cut bunches in the 

 jiame of A. W. Latham, of Excelsior, 



In regard to the proceedings and discussions of the American 

 Pomological Society, the meetings being held in a room separate 

 from the exhibits, I only attended to those portions that I deemed 

 of most interest to the West, but spent the most of my time where 

 I thought I could do the most good, at the tables of our fruit. The 

 hall was constantly thronged with visitors, day and evening for 

 three days — the Minnesota fruit was an object of great interest, and 

 though as in all such places, there is considerable repetition in the 

 information imparted, as with a lecture on wax works and things, 

 I did not regret the time or the effort. I was a representative 

 •of the State for the nonce, and of the Northwest, too, for that mat- 

 ter, and did what I could for it. Opportunity was found in the 

 debates, however, to place our Wealthy and some others of our 

 best varieties of fruits fairly upon the record, and at the banquet 

 which closed the meeting, and which was given to the American 

 Pomological Society by ':he Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 

 your delegate in responding to the toast assigned him " The Pomo- 

 logy of the Northwest," gave the outlook of the fruit interest of a 

 somewhat larger territory than our State alone, but of a part of 

 which at present, certainly that part of it to the Northwest of 

 «s, we are the headquarters and the source of light on the subject. 



The points of principal interest in the debates will be carefully 

 abstracted and furnished for our annual report, together with va- 

 rious items of information in horticulture obtained in the exten- 

 sion of my trip to Washington, and to the New York experiment 

 station at Geneva, and I will print also the final resolutions of 

 the meeting and the new rules of the American Pomological So- 

 ■ciety to govern future exhibitions, to which they desire to invite 

 special attention of kindred societies. To the resolution which 



