1876.] REPORT OF SECRETARY. $5 



Maiden's Blush, 2 plates, Seedling, Nash's, from 



Mother, "N'orthern Spy, 



Canada, Seedling, Salisbury's, 



Ounce — Twenty, Williams' Early Red. 



Native, (of Millbury), 



There were seventy-one (71) plates of Pears contributed, from which 

 thirly-seven (37) were picked out as of sufficient excellence. With the 

 same laudable intent of enlightening posterity, the varieties of Pears, so 

 chosen, are also placed upon record. 

 Bartlett, Flemish Beauty, 



Belle Lucrative, Goodale, 



Beurre d' Amanlis, ITowell, 



Beurre de P Assomption, Hovey — Dana's, 



15eurre Clairgeau, Louise Bcnne de Jersey, 2 pi., 



lieurre d' Anjou, Mt. Vernon, 



Beurre — Golden, . Paradis d'Automne, 



Beurre Hardy, Seckel, 



Beurre Langelier, Sheldon, 



Colimibia, 2 plates, St. Ghislain, 



Des Nonnes, St. Michel, • 



Dix, Seedling, (Native fn^m West 



Doyenn^ Boussoc, Boylston), 



Doyenne du Comice, Washington, 



Duchesse, Winter Nelis. 



Durandeau, 2 plates, 



Of all these varieties of Apples and Pears, how many will be popula^' 

 — possibly even extant — a century hence '? If the publication of these 

 lists shall be of no other use, it may at least enable my successor, at the 

 close of another hundred years, to point a moral, as he traces the survival 

 of the fittest in the Pomology of his day and generation. 



The Massachusetts Hoeiticultural Society, with characteristic 

 and ready courtesy, tendered us a portion of the space seasonably se- 

 cured for its own use; and the offer was thankfully accepted. And, as it 

 was thought best that our contribution should be sent direct from Wor- 

 cester, Messrs. J. C. Newton and Henry Phelps were put in charge of it, 

 to attend to its safe delivery and proper arrangement. To their energy 

 and promptness is it owing that a gross blunder in transmission was rem- 

 edied, at no greater cost than the personal inconvenience to which Mr. 

 Newton, in an especial manner, subjected himself. 



Of that Pomological Exhibition it is hardly necessary to speak at 

 length. It was announced as an " Exhibition of Northern Pomological 



