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reports of these two Clubs. Within a week from this time more 

 persons will have read the proceedings of this Club, to-day,- than 

 of any other aseociation upon this continent, within as short a 

 time. The local newspapers will have copied them all over the 

 country, because these inquiries directly concern the mass of the 

 people. It was thought to be a great advance to publish these 

 reports at Albany ; but now that the newspapers are circulating 

 them, they are a hundred fold more read than they were thirty 

 years ago. If a novelty appears here it will be much more 

 thoroughly investigated than it could be by a committee at an 

 annual fair. It would seem, therefore, desirable that the Farmers' 

 Club, and the Polytechnic Association, should have the power 

 of conferring premiums, thus making these two associations a 

 perpetual fair. 



APPLES AND PEARS. 



Mr, Carpenter exhibited a large assortment of apples and pears, 

 embracing forty varieties of apples and twenty varieties of pears, 

 being, with a few exceptions varieties which have ripened since 

 his last exhibition. A few of these varieties have been hastened 

 in reaching maturity by the drought. Of apples, the Gravenstein 

 he placed at the head of the list, the finest apple, and with the 

 highest perfume, of large size, and good appearance. Next comes 

 the Hawley, of monstrous size, and of the best quality. Next 

 comes the Porter apple, an excellent market apple, bearing pro- 

 fusely, and having a delightful perfume. The Dutch Mignon is a 

 monstrous apple, weighing a pound ; and the Rhode Island 

 Greening is also a large apple. The Pound Sweeting is a fine 

 looking apple. The Landron is a new, large apple, of excellent 

 quality. The St. Lawrence is a beautiful apple, of good quality. 

 The Alexander is a beautiful apple, but is not valuable for the 

 market. The Cloth of Gold is a fine orchard apple. The Fall 

 Pippin, and other varieties, were exhibited without comment. 

 Of pears, the Beurre Clairgeau is of great beauty, but not yet in 

 season. The Flemish Beauty is very large. TLe Bonne de Zees 

 is a French pear, a fine bearer, of large size and delightful flavor, 

 averaging larger than the Bartlett. The Beurre Kirtland is a 

 seedling from Pennsylvania, a good table pear, but not of first 

 quality. The Belle et Bonne is second rate for the table, and a 

 good cooking pear. The Beurre d'Amadis is a second rate pear, 

 and a great bearer. Stephens' Genesee is an excellent variety 

 thrown out at one time by the Pomological Convention, but after- 



