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Grapes, Catawba — From Kelley'a Island; reported to be ns good aa when 

 first picked. 



Your Committee take great pleasure in noticing tliese fruits, which are 

 the result of ihe applications of science to the every day operations of tiie 

 farm and garden, 'i'he , hoiticiiltnriet may grow the finest fruits in their 

 season, and enjoy them with his friends in their day; but it requires the 

 patient el^brts ot the man who will studiously apply the aids of science to 

 tlie wants of his fellow man, to preserve these choice results for an almost 

 indefinite period. Here we have some delicious fruits, preserved for nearly 

 seven months, and presented to us in their natural condition. 

 Approved. 



WM. STOMS, 

 R. M. REILLY, 

 WM. RESOR, 

 THOMAS SI]ERLOCK, 

 JOHN A. WARDER. 



July 20, 1801. 

 From Benj. M. Nyce, of McCoy's Station, Decatur County, Indiana: 



Apples — Growth of 18<;0, preserved in his Patent Preserving Fruit Room: 

 Pennock, Romanite or Giln)an, White Winter Pearmain, White Bellflower, 

 Rhode Island Greening, Pryor's Red, Northern Spy, Raul's Janet, Rambo, 

 Campfield. 



Strawberries — Gathered seven weeks since: — Sound and fresh. 



Potatoes — Growth of IBUO: — Perfectly sound, showing no disposition to 

 sprout, or grow, or wilt. 



These products furnish further evidence, if any such weie needed by this 

 Society, that the ingenious application of scientific truths has enabled our 

 enterprising friend Nyce to arrest the natural process of decay in our perisha- 

 ble fruits, most of which appear before us in a perfectly sound condition after 

 months of isolation from the parent trees upon which they acquired their 

 growth and perfect maturation. 



JOHN A. WARDER, Chairman. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF OHIO STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY ON THE FKDIT 

 EXHIBITED BY PROF. NYCE, DEC. 8, 1865. 



Your Committee, to whom was ascsigned the duty of examining the fruits 

 shown by Prof. Nyce, and which iiave been preserved in the most perfect 

 condition by the system invented and introduced by Prof. N., consisted of the 

 following kinds and varieties : 



Pears — Duchess d'Angouleme, Belle Lucrative, Louise Bonne de Jersey, 

 Onondaga, Bartlett, Seckel, and Beurre d'Anjou. 



Foreign Grapes — Aug. 30 — Black Hamburg, White Sweetwater, Muscat of 

 Alexandria, and Royal Muscadine. 



Native Grapes — Diana, Delaware, and Catawba. 



The specimens of pears and grapes shown were as sound and perfect as 

 when put away in August and September last, and those tasted by your Com- 

 mittee retained nearly their natural flavor and quality, and your Committee 

 btlieve fully justify the inventor in what he claims as one of the excellences 

 of his patent right, viz.: The preserving of fruits in a state unchanged in 

 respect to flavor and quality. This point has been one of the most desirable 

 to secure, and your Committee congratulate the inventor on the success he 

 has attained, '['he unchanged condition secured by this system is shown by 

 some of the bunches of grapes examined by the Committei? in the fresh 



