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The Committee regret that so little interest is taken in this department. 

 Of many articles for which premiums were offered, no specimens have 

 been exhibited ; and as it was presumed that the intention of the Society 

 in making the appropriation was to give rewards only where they were 

 merited, they have withheld premiums where, in their opinion, there was 

 no excellence in the specimens exhibited, — and more than half the amount 

 at their disposal will not be called for. 



JOHN A. KENRICK, Chairman. 



Approved by the Executive Committee, February 22, 1844. 



Meeting of the Society, April 6, 1844. 



The following amendment of the Constitution, proposed at a previous 

 meeting, was adopted : — 



That the officers of this Society shall be elected on the first Saturday of 

 October, and enter upon their respective duties on the first Saturday of 

 January, in the year 1846; and succeeding years, instead of the first Sat- 

 urday of April, as now provided ; and that the term of office of the re- 

 spective officers who may be elected on the first Saturday of October, 1844, 

 and whose term of office will commence on the first Saturday of April, 

 1845, shall terminate on the first Saturday of January, in the year 1846, 

 instead of the first Saturday of April, of said year. 



An account of a New Seedling Apple, with an engraving of the fruit, 

 its origin, &c. ; and also a notice of the Detroit Apple ; in a letter of Mr. 

 Ernst to the President of the Society : — 



" I had hoped to have met with a gentleman going to your city, who would 

 be willing to take charge of a very small box of specimens of fruit for 

 your inspection and that of our Society ; but in this I have been disap- 

 pointed. I have prevailed on Mr. Mussey to take a few specimens, and a 

 few scions ; I may have other opportunities before too late : if so, I shall 

 not fail to avail myself of the pleasure. 



Detroit. — No. 1, is the apple which is known here as the Detroit Apple, 

 specimens of which, with its history, so far as I have been enabled to trace 

 it, I sent you last winter. The present specimens are a fairer sample of 

 what the fruit is. I will thank you for any information with regard to it, 

 if it is known with you, and the estimation in which it is held. 



Cannahari's Favorite. — No. 2, (Jig. 7,) is a specimen of a seedling apple 

 under the name of "Cannahan's Favorite." The original tree of this 

 fruit stands on Mr. Cannahan's farm, thirteen miles north of this city, on 

 the " Hamilton Road." The seed from which this tree originated was 



