8 TRANSACTIONS, &c. 



term it) of certain valuable varieties, which, when first introduced, 

 did i^ot promise well in our soil and climate, but which now come 

 to our annual exhibition, lar2;e and fair, an earnest that they will yet 

 be among our most abimdant, as well as our best market fruits. Of 

 tlie^e, your Com:mittec note with pleasure the Yellow Newton Pippin, 

 the Northern Spy, the Golden Ball, and the Knglish Golden Russet. 

 Improved culture is farther shewn, in the- extended cultivation of 

 certain valuable varieties, native to our Cotmty or State. Of these 

 ■we would mention the Leicester Winter Sweeting, the Danvers 

 Winter Sweeting, the Berlin Russett, the Ilapgood, the Sudbury 

 Sweeting, the Capron's Pleasant, Eames's Seedling, and many 

 others, which we cannot enumerate for want of time and space. 



The whole number of varieties presented to the notice of your 

 Committee, was two hundred and fifty-six, a larger number, we will 

 venture to say, than has ever conie under the notice of any former 

 committee. Of these, one hundred and twenty are well known, 

 valuable varieties, hardy, productive, and m every way adapted to 

 our soil and climate. Of the remainder, a great number, no doubt, 

 are fine and valuable, well known in their peculiar localities, but 

 whose names, and whose qualities, in this instance, happen to be 

 unknown to the Committee. In regard to them, the Committee 

 would suggest to cultivators, if, in their locality there are valuable 

 sorts, hitherto entered in our exhibition as nameless, that they select 

 among themselves a name for them^ propagate them only undes that 

 name, and have them regularly entered under it, on the books of 

 the Society. 



The Committee would further state, that the labor of having 

 examined all these distinct varieties, separately and in detail, has 

 been burdensome and fatiguing, requiring the sacrifice of much, 

 valuable time, and they hope that where names have been given to 

 varieties entered as nameless, or where varieties entered under 

 wrong names, have been supplied with the right ones, these altera- 

 ations and corrections may be carefully noted, and preserved by the 

 exhibitors, so that the committee for the coming year may not he- 

 obliged to go over the same ground again, knowing that their labor 

 will not be appreciated, or their corrections regarded, on the part of 

 the cultivators. Your Committee urge this,, especially,, because it 

 has heretofore been observed, that certain cultivators persist in send- 

 ing specimens to the exhibition, from year to year, under wrong: 

 names, when, every year, the proper corrections have been made; ok 



