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Dr. Underbill remarked that the soil was an important consideration 

 in connection with fruitfulness ; trees that grew rapidly, made wood 

 instead of fruit buds, and consequently did not bear well. Trees rap- 

 idly grown, he said, were also tender, having large sap vessels ; he 

 believed the yellows in peach trees to be caused hy the prevalent cus- 

 tom of forcing their growth. He said he had planted peach stones in 

 a soil so barren that they were not fit for budding in four or five years; 

 this he did to avoid the diseases consequent on rapid growth. 



J. M. Earle said, the soil on which the Dix trees grew at Worces- 

 ter, to which he had before alluded, was a loam, where the roots struck 

 down three feet before they came to the hard pan, and they were al- 

 ways in a vigorous condition. 



A. Mcintosh said the Dix Pear was fine with him on the pear stock 

 at Cleveland, Ohio, but would not grow on the quince. His tree was 

 probably fourteen years old. 



H. W. Terry, of Hartford, said that a neighbor of his had a large 

 tree of the Andrews pear on quince, 7 years old, that bore this year 

 1^ bushels of fruit. 



The Buerre d'Aremberg pear was next discussed. Samuel Walker 

 called it " Tho Prince of Pears;" he said that in most importations 

 from Europe, the Glout Morceau had been received for this variety ; 

 and that amongst cultivators the two pears had been much confound- 

 ed, but that now the confusion was in a great measure corrected. He 

 said the first true Beurre d'Aremberg he saw, were from trees of Col. 

 Wilder, that he received of Madame Parmentier, of New-York. He 

 had grafted it on a large tree, and it bore plentifully in three years. 

 It not only bore large crops, but adhered to the tree in the most vio" 

 lent gales, and ripened without any artificial means. Worked direct- 

 ly on the quince, it does not unite well at all ; he has it double- 

 worked, but it does not succeed so well as on the pear stock. 



The President said, that with him for twelve years, it had produced 

 large crops of fine fruit. He barrelled them up in the ordinary way, 

 and they ripened without further care. 



C. M. Hovey said his experience corresponded with that of Mr. 

 Walker and the President. Mr. Thompson, of the Loudon Horticul- 

 tural Society, he said, considered it inferior to the Glout Morceau. 



