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tions, and I know of no variety that I would prefer, to cultivate with that, 

 for a very abundant crop ; although I have the Early Scarlet, Iowa, Bath, 

 and others, which I have used for that purpose : the staminates, you know, 

 are all noted for their strong growth and rapid increase, but your pine, I 

 think, exceeds all others in this respect ; certainly all that I have cultivated. 

 Of the twelve vines procured of you, as I have remarked, in the fall of 1845, 

 I gave four to a friend going west early in the following spring. This left 

 me but eighi to start with, and yet these eight gave me, as I believe, from 

 fifieen hundred to two thousand plants at the close of the season, and from 

 these \vere picked very little, if any, short of a bushel of fruit the past 

 summer. — Your very oh'' t servant, D. W. Coit, Noriuich, Conn., Oct. 1847. 

 First Annual Exhibition of the Albany and Rensselaer Horticultural Soci- 

 ety. — The first annual exhibition of this Society was held at the State Geo- 

 logical Rooms, in Albany, on Saturday, September 11th, 1847, and a full 

 repori lias been sent, which, as heretofore, we must condense for want of 

 room : — 



" It is not yet six months since the society was formed ; and, of course, 

 no opportunity has been afforded for increasing the varieties, or extending 

 the cultivation of the various articles exhibited, and yet the show of fruit, 

 flowers, and vegetables astonished and delighted every beholder. A more 

 beautiful, a more extensive horticultural exhibition has seldom or ever been 

 witnessed in this State. 



The undersigned begs to congratulate the friends and supporters of the 

 society up(m the entire success of this, their first annual exhibition ; and 

 trusts that this satisfactory and encouraging result will induce them to fur- 

 ther and continued exertions for the prosperity and welfare of the society. 



Frujts : The Committee on Fruits report that there were exhibited by 

 R. H. Vail, of Ida farm, Troy, eleven varieties of apples, viz., Holland 

 Pippin, Early Tart Bough, Heart's Pippin, Jersey Sweeting, Early Sweet 

 Bough, Spitzemberg H. I. Greening, Domine, Vandervere, Swaar, and 

 one variety not named ; three varieties of pears, viz., Bartlett, Beurr^ Ranee, 

 and (^aliilac ; seven varieties of plums, viz., Coe's Golden Drop, Flushing 

 Gage, Heine Claude, Yellow Egg, Imperial Gage, Yellow Gage, and a 

 seedling of a fair character ; one variety of the peach, the Red Magdalen ; 

 and three varieties of grapes, viz., Isabella, Winne, and a native Blue vari- 

 ety. 



By D. Benson, of Albany, Beurr6 Diel pears, Washington, Royal Pur- 

 ple and Nectarine plums, and a very fine variety of seedling peach. By 

 Wm. Newcomb, three varieties of watermelons and three of muskmelons. 

 By E. P. Prentice, of Mount Hope, Albany, very beautiful specimens of 

 Bergen Yellow peaches, one variety of watermelon, and one variety of 

 muskmelon. By John Gott, of Albany, a limb bearing thirty beautiful 

 peaciies, not named, and two varieties of plums. Green Gage, and a seed- 

 ling variety. 



By Stephen E. Warren, of Troy, seven varieties of peaches, viz., No- 

 blesse, Royal George, Palroon, Sweetwater, Lemon Cling, Red Magda- 

 len, and a seedling; three varieties of Mectarines, viz., Perkins seedling. 



