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appointed, consisting of five persons from each State in tlie Union, and the 

 Canadas ; the President being, ex officio, a member. The objects of the 

 committee are to report the results of their correspondence and labors at 

 the next session. They are also instructed to report a list of such varieties 

 as are decidedly unworthy of cultivation. The secretaries of the conven- 

 tion will compare and collate their notes, and prepare a full report of the 

 doings of the convention, which report will be published and sent to every 

 delegate and to every horticultural and other kindred society in the country. 

 After a sitting of three davs, it was voted at a late hour, on the last even- 

 ing, to adjourn to the first Tuesday of October, 1849, then to meet in New 

 York, under the title of the "American Congress of Fruit-growers," a 

 name which was adopted by a small majority of the delegates present. 



There was a very fine exhibition of fruit, and by far the most attractive 

 part of the display was a basket, containing about half a bushel, of splendid 

 specimens of Swan's Orange pears, from Syracuse, N. Y. Some superb 

 Northern Spy apples were exhibited by J. H. Watts, Esq., of Rochester. 

 A full list of the contributors, with a list of their fruits, will appear with the 

 report of the convention. 



Subsequently to our writing the above paragraph, we found the list of fruits 

 recommended by the convention published in the Tribune, which we here 

 copy. At the time the list was read to the convention, we forgot to note 

 down the names in the order in which they were reported : — 



Peaches — Varieties recommended for general cultivation — Grosse Mig- 

 nonne. Early York, (serrated,) Old Mixon free, Coolidge's Favorite, Craw- 

 ford's Late, Bergen's Yellow. For particular localities — Heath Cling. 



Plums — Varieties recommended for general cultivation — Jefferson, Wash- 

 ington, Green Gage, Purple Favorite, Coe's Golden Drop, Bleeker's Gage, 

 Frost Gage, Purple Gage. For particular localities — Prince's Imperial 

 Gage. 



Cherries — Varieties recommended for general cultivation — Black Eagle, 

 Mayduke, Grafiion or Bigarreau, Black Tartarian, Elton, Knight's Early 

 Black, Downer, Downton. 



Apples — Varieties recommended for general cultivation — Early Harvest, 

 American Summer Pearmain, Bough, Gravenstein, Summer Rose, Early 

 Strawberry, Fall Pippin, Rhode Island Greening, Baldwin, Roxbury Rus- 

 set. For particular localities — Yellow Bellflower, Swaar, iEsopus Spitzen- 

 berg, Newtown pippin. 



Pears — Varieties recommended for general cultivation — Madaleine, Dear- 

 born's Seedling, Bloodgood, Tyson, Williams's Bon Chretien, Seckel, Louise 

 Bonne of Jersey, Flemish Beauty, Beurr6 Bosc, Winter Nelis, Beurr6 

 d'Aremberg, Golden Beurr6 of Bilboa. For certain localities — White Doy- 

 enne, Gray Doyenn6. 



Art. III. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Owing to the great length of the Report of the Festival, in our last num- 

 ber, we were obliged to defer the report of the chairman of the Committee 

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