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Mr. Josiah Hoopes said "the election of new 

 members, he believed, is always in order, and the 

 man I now propose to elect, twenty years ago, did 

 more than any one in the organization and early 

 prosperity of the Society, and he now moved that 

 John Eutter, Esq., of West Chester, be elected an 

 honorary member of this Society. Mr. Rutter was 



elected by acclamation. 



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The Committee on Mr. Rutter's paper on Peach 

 Growing, reported that the paper referred to was a 

 manuscript of a treatise on the culture of the Peach 

 and its diseases, remedies, &c., just prepared for 

 publication, that it was too voluminous for a single 

 address, and recommended that extracts be read 

 from it. The Secretary now read such extracts as 

 were selected. They were lengthy and very ex- 

 haustive. These, with Mr. Rutter's very 'able ad- 

 dress before the Society, presented clearly his 

 mode of culture, treatment of the diseases of the 

 Peach, &c. 



He gave a brief history of the introduction of 

 the peach into the American colonies, adaptability 

 of our soil and climate to its growth, and great 

 productiveness, continuing in health and vigor to 

 an old age, affording annually its delicious tribute 

 as a luxury to tho early colonists. About the 

 commencement of the American Revolution a 

 change suddenly came over the health and pro- 

 ductiveness of the tree, first appearing near Phila- 



