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said by a New-York nursery-man of travel and experience to. exceed any simi- 

 lar exliibition he had ever witnessed at Rochester, which is the great centre of 

 the fruit-growers of the Empire State, and the point selected for holding their 

 meetings and exhibitions. This is no mean praise; but the exhibiters of these 

 beautiful fruits of Indiana growth did not seem to feel that they had done any 

 thing extraordinary, nor even that they had come up to some of their former 

 efforts in this winter exhibition. 



The president, Mr. I. D. G. Nelson, a well-known and successful fruit-grower 

 of Fort Wayne, called the society to order in the forenoon, and appointed some 

 committees to forward the business of the sessions. The society then adjourned 

 for dinner. 



On re-assembling in the afternoon, the Business Committee made their report 

 of a programme, fixing as the first order an address upon the grape-vine, to be 

 given by Dr. Warder of Ohio, who has been a regular visitor at these meetings, 

 and an acknowledged member of tlie society. In his address, the attention of 

 the audience (which was greatly enlarged by the attendance of the State Agri- 

 cultural Society) was called especially to the tenninology of the vine ; and the 

 adoption of uniform expressions when speaking or writing about the vine, its 

 treatment, training, and trimming, was urged upon his audience. To aid in this, 

 a few well-selected and direct terms were proposed from the best authorities ; 

 and these were recommended for general adoption. The lecture was fully illus- 

 trated by portions of grape-vines brought from a neighboring vineyard ; and, at 

 its close, the address and the vines were taken up as the theme for an interesting 

 discussion on trimming and training, which occupied the remainder of the after- 

 noon. 



In the evening session, the society considered the apple-ljst by catalogue, for 

 the purpose of putting upon record the result of the year's experience and 

 observations. In this society a great work has already been done, at the sugges- 

 tion of the American Pomological Society, in the way of cataloguing the fruits 

 with symbols and abbreviations descriptive of their characters and values. 

 This is done in tabular form, and the result is of great value to orchard-planters 

 throughout the State. It is a labor that requires long-continued observations 

 and repeated consultations and amendments, but which has now reached a con- 

 siderable degree of perfection, and may be taken as a safe guide in the difTerent 

 regions into which the State has been divided, — Northern, Central, and Soutlicrn. 



Wednesday., ]2,xi.Z. — Amid the confusion and excitement incident to this 

 day of political action at the capital, our fruit-men, who are largely made up of 

 substantial and quiet Quakers, resumed their peaceful labors for the promotion 

 of the comfort of their fellow-citizens. 



A communication on the subject of m irketing fruits was read from Mr. Mat- 

 thews of the neighboring State of Illinois ; after which Mr. Dunlap of Cham- 

 paign, in the same State, delivered a lecture upon the same subject, which was 

 replete with valuable information. Both these papers touched important topics 

 to the fruit-grower, and indicated the necessity of preparing their products for 

 safe transportation to market, and of having them placed before the public in an 

 attractive form. The subject, being one of great interest, elicited a full and free 

 discussion amonjr the members. 



