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that I have tasted are most excellent pears, and I am glad to hear 

 they can be produced in such perfection in Illinois. 



Dr. Crowell suggested there "vvas a kind of pear called false 

 Seckels. 



Mr. Solon Robinson said it was due to Mr. Dudley to say that 

 he writes — "I did not conceive the idea of forwarding any pears 

 to the Club, until the suggestion was made to me by a friend; and 

 after my tirst specimens (size, with perfect development) had been 

 disposed of, a small portion only of my crop remaining," 



At the suo-gestion of the Chairman, a unanimous vote of thanks 

 w^as o-iven to Mr, Dudley, with an addendum that if these are true 

 Seckels, they are the best ever exhibited to this Club. 



Mr. R. G. Pardee — I was lately in Niagara county, N. Y., and 

 along the shore of Lake Ontario, where I found a bountiful fruit 

 crop. In a ride of seventeen miles, I noticed pear orchard^s upon 

 almost every farm, generally of the dwarf varieties. Ihe apple 

 trees, too, Avere loaded, and the fruit uncommonly fine. There 

 are also more peaches in that section than in any other which I 

 have seen or heard of this year. Fifty-nine tons of peaches were 

 shipped from Lockport in one day last week. A farmer in that 

 neiohborhood sold his peach crop, growing upon five acres, for 

 $2,000. I have lately been upon the shore of Lake Michigan, 

 where the apple crop is very tine. While I am speaking, I desire 

 to take the opportunity of once more indorsing the Wilson straw- 

 berry as the most productive and most profitable market berry 

 ever grown. 



Use of Marl axd Sod Ground for Strawberries. 



Mr. Henry Glosser, Uniouville, Glocester Co., N. J., says he has 

 lately moved to that place from the State of New York, and is 

 grulibing out the roots and bushes to make a fruit farm. He 

 inquires: "What if I use five tons of marl per acre, and grow 

 clover, and turn that under and plant strawberries upon the sod?" 



Mr. Cavanagh would not advise to plant strawberries the first 

 year. Better plant some other crop the first year after breaking 

 up the land. Then plant strawberries the second year. He thinks 

 we cannot manure strawberries too highly. He has tried raising 

 them with and without manures; and he thinks it pays to manure 

 strawberries, and they cannot be raised profitably without abun- 

 dant fertilization. 



