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Prolific. One yard square of the two latter plants produced on his ground, 

 last year, more berries than rods of square ground planted with other varie- 

 ties. 



Mr. McWilliams read some remarks in favor of the majority report, and 

 sustained his position as a member of the committee. 



Mr. Ernst advocated McAvoy's Superior, and thought the report in favor 

 of it was too tame and did not say enough. He observed that Mr. Ives and 

 Mr. Sleath cultivated the true plants, and their opinions were worth more 

 than those Avho had been disappointed in getting the genuine plants. 



Mr. Ives stated that his cu'tivation of McAvoy's Superior succeeded ad- 

 mirably by impregnating with the Iowa staminate plant. The McAvoy 

 strawberry was very large and fine, selling to his customers in the city at 

 forty cents per quart, when Hovey's Seedling brought only fifteen cents. 



Mr. Sleath stated that the same quantity of McAvoy's plants would pro- 

 duce double as much as the Hovey Seedling on the same quantity of ground. 



Mr. Howarth advocated a full impregnation as necessary to a good crop 

 of McAvoy's strawberry. 



Mr. Mears warmly advocated the minority report, and was decidedly in 

 favor of Hovey's Seedling. He opened up the whole subject, including the 

 newspaper publications, and sustained all that Mr. Stoms had stated in the 

 Times. 



Mr. Stoms also defended himself, and advocated the superiority of the 

 Hovey strawberry over all others, having seen it in the Cincinnati market 

 for the last twenty years. 



Mr. Brace was in favor of the former decision of the society — in favor of 

 McAvoy's Superior — and he has seen nothing since that decision to change 

 his opinion. He preferred another crop and the cultivation of both varieties 

 another season before he gave his opinion. 



Mr. Orange was anxious to lay the whole subject on the table and there 

 let it rest. 



The Secretary advocated the original resolution without the amendment. 



The question being then taken on the amendment offered by Mr. Greene, 

 it was carried by the casting vote of the President. The resolution then, 

 as amended, was carried by a large vote. 



The society then ordered the reports of the majority and the minority on 

 the strawberry question to be printed with the proceedings. 



REPORT ON THE STRAWBERRY. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society : 



A majority of your committee, to whom was referred the communications 

 of Messrs. A. H. Ernst and William Orange, calling the attention of this 

 society to an article in the Times, of this city, over the signature of Wm. 

 Stoms, in reply to a communication of Nicholas Longworth, Esq., in the 

 same paper, on the subject of strawberries, beg leave to offer the following 

 report, viz. : For size of berries and hardihood of plants they know of no 

 strawberry better than McAvoy's Superior. In prolific qualities it is sur- 

 passed by few worthy of cultivation ; but their experience, so far as the 



