VOL. IL] MAECH, 1879. [No. 3. 



WESTERN NEW YORK HORTICULTURAL. SOCIETY. 



This body has recently held a very interesting and profitable 

 meeting in the city of Rochester, continuing in session for two days. 

 There was a fine exhibition of fruits ; Messrs. Ellwanger and Barry 

 exhibiting a collection of forty-eight varieties of apple and sixteen of 

 pear, and other gentlemen exhibited smaller collections. Two white 

 grapes were shown which attracted considerable attention, the Pock- 

 lingtou, shown by John Charlton, and the Prentiss, shown by T. S. 

 Hubbard. Mention was also made of a Quince known as the Bentley, 

 which came from Connecticut, and was grown at Byron, N. Y. It is 

 larger than the Orange Quince, and ripens some two or three weeks later; 

 and the question was raised, but not definately settled, whether it was 

 the same as the variety grown in some parts of Connecticut and known 

 as the Champion Quince, which also ripened later than the Orange 

 variety. The Stark Apple was on exhibion, a new sort, which is 

 thought by some to promise well as a valuable late keeping market 

 apple. 



Upon the question whether we are in danger of an over-production 

 of fruit, and how to increase both the home and foreign demand, there 

 seemed to be great unanimity of opinion that there was no dano^er 

 whatever of an over supply of really first-class fruit, and that the 

 demand for fruit at home, and abroad could be largely increased by a 

 steady supply of first quality fruit, put up and marketed with care, in 

 a neat and attractive manner. The eager haste for quantity must give 

 place to careful attention to quality. To secure this, attention must 

 be paid in planting the trees, to set them upon land suitable for the 

 production of the particular fruit planted, whether it be apple or pear, 

 or peach, or plum. Not all land is suitable for fruit trees, and some 

 varieties of fruits do better on soil of one kind than that of another. 

 The plum delights in a strong clay soil, the peach in a light sandy or 



