THE AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



In a previous number we gave a brief notice of the fourth 

 meeting of this Society, which was held in Rochester, N. Y., 

 on the 24th of September last, and continued in session three 

 days. At that time we deferred an account of its proceed- 

 ings until the report of the same was published. But as this 

 has not yet come to hand, we avail ourselves of an official 

 abstract of it, published in the Rural New Yorker, which 

 contains all the discussions upon the several varieties of fruits 

 brought before the Society, the only information of general 

 interest to our readers, the other matter being chiefly reports 

 of State committees. 



The meeting was held at Rochester, with the intention of 

 meeting our Western friends half way, and with the expecta- 

 tion that they would bring with them specimens of the mag- 

 nificent apples which are produced in that fertile region, both 

 for exhibition and examination, that their great beauty might 

 be witnessed and the qualities of such as are rare or little 

 known better appreciated, and the synonymous varieties de- 

 tected. 



In all this, however, our Eastern friends were disappointed. 

 With one or two exceptions, in all not amounting to more 

 than twenty or thirty kinds, no apples were presented before 

 the Society, and even Western New York, usually prolific in 

 specimens of this excellent fruit, was as deficient in this re- 

 spect as the great West. Owing to an unprecedented cold 

 winter, the apple trees were not only severely injured, and 

 the crop consequently destroyed, but in many localities they 

 were killed outright, to such an extent that it must be three 

 or four years before they can be replaced and brought to as 

 good a bearing state as they were a year previous. New 

 York did not suffer in the loss of trees, but the intense cold, 

 followed by a summer of severe drought, so greatly diminished 

 the product of the orchards, that few really fine specimens 



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