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this spring. Last spring was backward, but I gathered berries on the first 

 of June. This year I do not expect any before the 15th. They look very 

 promising, however, and the fine rain we have just had has helped them on 

 wonderfully.— Yours, P. B. Mead, Mw York, May 21, 1855. 



Fruit Growers' Society in Western New York. — By a reference 

 to our reports of societies it will be seen that a Pomological Association 

 has been organized in Western New York. We doubt not it will be pro- 

 ductive of much good. Mr. Eaton, the secretary, writes us that it is " a 

 perfectly unanimous thing, so far as heard from, and every one is in favor 

 of it." The New York State Agricultural Society, though doing much to 

 promote fruit culture, is too much engrossed with agricultural improvement 

 to bestow that attention to pomology which the interest of such a great 

 state demands. 



The Bullock's Pippin, or Sheepnose Apple. — We notice some of 

 the newspapers are giving descriptions and engravings of this old apple, 

 under the name of Hunt's Russet. It was fully described and figured by 

 Coxe forty years ago, as the Bullock's Pippin, and more recently in our 

 Magazine, (Vol. XV., 1849.) Any one would suppose that with the infor- 

 mation now to be obtained in regard to our older fruits such errors as the 

 above would not be committed. So long, however, as cultivators will not 

 study our standard works we must expect to have our best fruits cultivated 

 under half a dozen or more names. 



Socidi^s 



FRUIT growers' society OF WESTERN NEW YORK. 



A Pomological Association, bearing the above title, was organized at a 

 meeting of ^^ruit Growers and Nurserymen, held in Rochester on the 27th 

 February. A Constitution and By-Laws were adopted, and the following 

 officers elected : 



President — John J. Thomas, Macedon. 



Vice Presidents — Lewis F. Allen, Buffalo ; H. P. Norton, Brockport ; E. 

 W. Leavenworth, Syracuse. 



Secretary — John B. Eaton, Buffalo. 



Treasurer — Wm. P. Townsend, Lockport. 



The Executive Committee is composed of the following gentlemen : — P. 

 Barry, Rochester ; H. E. Hooker, Rochester ; H. L. Suydam, Geneva ; J- 

 C. Hanchett, Syracuse ; P. R. FreeoflT, Auburn. 



The General Fruit Committee was in part appointed as follows : — 



General Chairman — P. Barry. Chatauque Co. — Lincoln Fay. Erie Co. — 

 John B. Eaton, Benjamin Hodge, Wm. R. Coppock. Niagara Co. — W- P. 

 Townsend, M. L. Burrell, C. L. Hoag. Cattaraugus Co.— Spencer Scud- 



