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The apples keep in cool locations until March, and even June, as 

 fresh as a June picked apple, and are fragrant to the last, as well as 

 juicy. I have done much to disseminate the scions as well as trees, 

 and know no apple in Western New- York which will compare with 

 it as a long keeper except the Russet. I only hope to live to see the 

 day when they shall be as plenty as other apples, so that every one 

 can have them. 



Very truly, 



JAMES H. WATTS. 



W. R. Prince moved the appointment of a committee of five to 

 investigate the various maladies, and the depredations of the various 

 insects injurious to trees and plants. 



Thos. Allen, of Missouri, said he felt great interest in this subject ; 

 that in the Mississippi valley they could not ripen plums on account 

 of the ravages of the Curculio. The pear tree, he said, was also 

 attacked by an insect that commences its operations on the ends of 

 the young shoots, by eating out the pith, and so poisonous is the bite, 

 that although the affected part be cut away, yet the tree turns brown 

 and dies. 



He said, there were in that section of the country no pear trees of 

 fine quality or recent growth, owing to this insect ; that a few intro-- 

 duced by the old French settlers had withstood all attacks of climate 

 and disease. He w-ished this matter to come before the Committee 

 ©n Maladies, &c., and would offer as a substitute for W. R. Prince's 

 resolution, " that a committee of five be appointed to investigate into 

 and report upon the maladies of fruit trees, and the ravages of insects 

 upon the same, and the fruit thereof, and the best preventives or 

 remedies therefor." W. R. Prince accepted of the substitute, and it 

 was adopted. The chair appointed the following gentlemen com- 

 mittee : 



Prof. Harris, of Massachusetts. 

 W. R. Prince, Long Island. 

 Dr. RuMSEY, Fishkill Landing. 

 Prof. Hall, of Albany. 

 Dr. W. D. Brinckle, Philadc'^.M-. 



H. W. S, Cleveland, of New- Jersey, made a few interesting and 

 appropriate remarks in regard to Horticultural Exhibitions. He said, 



