108 VALUE OF IMPORTED VARIETIES. 



and my only Russian, " Arab," from Prof Budd. It is evidently 

 of no use for us to bother longer with any of the tree fruits of 

 Western Europe. The work already done by the Iowa agricul- 

 tural college, through Prof Budd, in bringing over the hardy 

 tree fruits of Northwestern Europe, propagating and distributing 

 them, is a full return for all the money expended in establishing 

 agricultural colleges in this country. 



NOTES FROM THE AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The biennial reports issued by the American Pomological 

 society (of which Charles W. Garfield of Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 is the secretary at present, and of which the late Marshall P. 

 Wilder was president), are among the most valuable horticul- 

 tural publications, but not one fruit grower in a thousand sees 

 this valuable report. The publishers of MAYNARD'S PRACTICAL 

 FRUIT GROWER have therefore thought wise to occupy the 

 remaining pages of this book with a brief summary of some of 

 the best practical points from the American Pomological society's 

 report for 1885. 



We first give a few extracts from the annual address of the late 

 President Wilder upon that occasion. 



WHAT THE AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY HAS ACCOMPLISHED. 



When we reflect on the unsettled and chaotic condition of 

 pomology in our country when our society was established, the 

 narrow limits to which fruit culture was confined, and the few 

 engaged in it, and compare it with the immense territory now 

 occupied for this purpose, and its importance as a great industry 

 of our country, I think it may be well to take a retrospective 

 view and see what our society has accomplished. 



Its formation opened a new era of enterprise in the annals of 

 American pomology, which has no parallel in those of other 

 lands. It was the first great national pomological society, em- 

 bracing in its organization the largest area for fruit culture in 

 the world, where almost every fruit of every zone may be grown 

 in perfection. 



It has brought into close communion of interest, and concert 

 of action, the most experienced and skillful pomologists of our 



