REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FRUITS. 91 



Porter, . . . .11 Sudbury Sweet, . . 2 



Pumpkin Sweet, . . 3 Twenty Ounce, ... 1 



R. I. Greening, . .11 Washington Strawberry, . 2 



Roxbury Russet, . .13 Yellow Bellflower, . . 3 



Dr. Charles C. Hamilton, of Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, a Cor- 

 i-esponding Member of the Society, desirous of promoting its 

 interests, forwarded a collection of thirt^^-two varieties of apples, 

 which were exhibited on the 16th of December. Perhaps the finest 

 specimens were the Broadwell, a sweet apple, of excellent quality, 

 originated in Ohio, which deserves to be tested here. The Bald- 

 wins, though not large, were the highest colored we have ever seen. 

 The Gravensteins also were not large, but were handsome and in 

 excellent preservation. This is not the first time that Dr. Hamilton 

 has laid the Society under obligation for a similar favor. 



On the day last mentioned, O. B. Hadwen, of Worcester, exhib- 

 ited several apples more generally grown in Worcester county than 

 in the eastern part of the State, but which appear deserving of 

 more extensive trial, first of which we would mention the Washing- 

 ton Royal or Palmer Greening — a handsome yellow apple of medium 

 size and the highest quality, both for table and cooking. The tree 

 is of vigorous grow^th and good habit, and bears annual crops. It 

 originated on the farm of Joseph P. Hayward, in Sterling. The 

 Leicester Winter Sweet is of large size, yellow, and fine for table or 

 baking. Baylies' Winter Sweet is of medium size, striped with 

 purplish crimson, and has much saccharine matter. Excel is a 

 Connecticut apple of medium size, somewhat conical in form, skin 

 yellow but nearly covered with bright red ; juicy, and of brisk but 

 pleasant subacid flavor. McClellan is of medium size, flattened, 

 striped with red, of mild subacid flavor, and thought b}' the Com- 

 mittee to be one of the best of the collection. We have several 

 times during the season been indebted to Mr. Hadwen for interest- 

 ing exhibitions of apples, and we wash that more of the apple grow- 

 ers in central and western Massachusetts, where that fruit flourishes 

 better than on the seacoast, might be induced to follow his example. 



August 19th, C. F. Gerry, of Dorchester, exhibited a seedling, 

 which he has named Gerry's Sweeting ; medium size, round, slightly 

 pearmain shaped, a little angular in transverse section ; skin dull 

 greenish yellow, striped with pinkish red, which, towards the sun, is 

 continuous, excepting that it is dotted with white ; juicy, sweet ; 

 good to very good. This seedling resembles Sweet Romanite, 



