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for the Press of Philadelphia, by that able journalist, Mr. Chas. A 

 Green, Editor of The Fruit Grower, published in Rochester, N. Y., 

 and we deem the subject matter of it as correlative with our new 

 agriculture. 



" The success of the twentieth annual meeting of the American 

 Pomological Society recently held at Grand Eapids, Mich. was. 

 largely owing to the efforts of President Marshall P. Wilder, one 

 of the best men ever engaged in the work; to acting President Pat- 

 rick Barry, Prof. W. J. Beal, Charles W. Garfield, E. H. Scott and 

 other prominent Michigan men. 



" President Wilder in his address glanced at the thirty-seven 

 years in which the society had worked. Long may it live on prosper 

 ing, and to prosper while the earth bears fruit and man lives to cul- 

 tivate it. This society is performing an immense amount of la- 

 bor in correcting errors. There is a wonderful contrast between 

 the early condition of pomology and that of the present day. The 

 future work will be continuous, and of vital importance. Press on 

 the good work, and when you are gone others will rise to take 

 your places. 



" Mr. Angel reported that Michigan produces five million bush- 

 els of large fruits annually, and that the prospects for the future 

 are more promising. In the discussion of new fruits, the yellow 

 transparent apple was spoken of by Mr. Gideon as about as hardy as 

 the Oldenburg, which had suffered the past year, when the thermom- 

 eter fell to forty-nine degrees below zero. The apple is of good qual- 

 ity and twelve days earlier than the Red Astrachan. It bears young 

 and is of uniform size. It has a tendency to crack when over-ripe. 

 It originated near St. Petersburg, Russia. The Shannon apple, 

 which took the first premium at the World's Exposition at New Or- 

 leans, is a seedling from Arkansas. It is profitable in the North 

 and West, is a large, showy fruit, but not of first quality. Mr. Gid- 



