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1. During certain hours of the session the special fruit committee 

 shall be in sitting to examine fruits. 



2. All examinations of fruit presented during the present sitting 

 of the Convention, shall be made in the committee room, where state- 

 ments to the committee must also be made 



3. The result of their labors shall be made known to the Conven- 

 tion in successive reports during its sittings. 



4. In all the discussions which may arise in the Convention, no 

 member shall speak more than five minutes, nor more than twnce on 

 the same subject. 



The report was accepted. On motion of A. J. Downing, 

 Resolved, That a special fruit committee be appointed for the ex- 

 amination of fruits. 



The Chair appointed the following gentlemen : 



A. J. Downing, Thomas Hancock, J. J.Thomas, Robert Buist, ■'-^- 

 Robert Manning, Dr. Herman Wendell, Josiah Lovett, L. C. Eaton, ^#^^1 

 and George Gabriel. 



Wm. R. Prince offered a resolution, calling for the appointment of 

 a committee to prepare and report to the Convention a list of a cer- 

 tain number of the various fruits that could be recommended for ge- 

 neral cultivation. After some remarks from Mr. Prince, explanatory 

 of the objects of his resolution, it was, on motion, referred to the 

 special fruit committee. 



The committee appointed to receive and report a list of the fruits 

 exhibited, reported as follows : 



Aaron D. Williams, Roxbury, Massachusetts. 



Pears, 10 varieties. 

 Samuel Allinson, Mercer, New- Jersey. 



Apples, 8 varieties, 

 Morris & Stokes, Westchester, Chester county, Pennsylvania. 



Plum, 1 variety. 



Apples, 9 varieties. 

 Herman Wendell, Albany, New- York. 



Pears, 10 varieties. 



