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ing the Excelsior and Gideon crabs, he said that both varieties orig- 

 inated with him from seed of a small crab. From five hundred seed- 

 lings of Excelsior only twenty proved hardy. The Salome apple was 

 well spoken of by several members. The Northwestern Greening was 

 not hardy, otherwise a promising variety. Mr. Gipson, of Colorado, 

 asked about Lon apple. Mr. Gideon, of Minnesota, replied that the 

 Lon apple originated on his farm. It is very early and succeeds well 

 in the south, as well as where he lives. It would drive any other apple 

 out of the market; one of the hardiest trees and of excellent quality. 

 The Missouri Geneting was well spoken of for the east. The Ohio 

 Greening was said to do better in Michigan than the Rhode Island 

 Greening. Commissioner Colman spoke of Wright's Genet, which he 

 had been instrumental in bringing to notice. It resembles Rawle's 

 Genet, but was a much larger tree. Brof. Budd spoke of one of the 

 Russian apples which, he thought, should have more general notice. 

 The name translated into English was Longfield. It was hardier than 

 Fameuse, larger than the Jonathan, yellow, and about the size of the 

 Missouri Geneting. Mr. Barry remarked that the Fameuse was good 

 enough for anybody. He said- "Up in the Adirondack region they 

 can grow nothing else. The trees are loaded." Mr. Gibb of Quebec, 

 considered Whitney's No. 20 the best of the crab class. Mr. Gideon 

 considered it several removes from the Siberian crab species. It had 

 but very little crab blood in it. Early Strawberry was favorably men- 

 tioned. Mr. Woodward, of the Rural New Yorker, thought every 

 family should have at least one tree of the genuine crab; there is 

 nothing to compare with it in the apple line for making jellies. This 

 closed the discussion on apples, and at the evening session the society 

 listened to an illustrated lecture on "The Injurious Fungi in relation 

 to the Diseases of Plants," by Prof. C. E. Bessey, of Nebraska. He 

 stated that the only remedy for this fungus was the knife. The dis- 

 eased portion must be cut off, whether it be a leaf, limb, tree, or whole 

 orchard. 



At the morning session of the second day Prof. J. C. Arthur of 

 the New York Experiment Station read a paper on the same subject; 

 he however confined his remarks more especially to pear blight. The 

 paper was well received, but the audience was left in ignorance con- 

 cerning the most important point, viz., a remedy for the disease. In 

 speaking of protection from frost. Prof. Lazenby, of Ohio, said, that 

 in his tests with mulched and bare ground, he had invariably found 

 a difference of from 3 to 5 degrees in favor of the bare ground. The 



