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to an eminent statesman in the political turmoil which was going for- 

 ward ; " why," said he, " why make all this noise and trouble about 

 a President, why not all agree on some good man and elect him at 

 once." 



Some other committee, more capable than the present one, might 

 perhaps have been able to agree at once upon lists of 100 varieties of 

 apples and pears j but we have only, after considerable discussion, 

 been able to resolve to submit the following very small lists — leaving 

 it to the future committees, with months instead of hours atTtheir dis- 

 posal, to arrive at more extended and complete results : — 



APPLES. 



Early Harvest, Rhode Island Greening, 



Large Yellow Bough, Baldwin, 



American Summer Pearmain, Roxbury Russet, 



Afid,for particular localities^ — 

 Yellow Bellefleur, 

 Esopus Spitzenburg, 

 Newtown Pippin. 



PEARS. 



Louise Bonne de Jersey on quince^ 

 Beurre Bose, 



Summer Rose, 

 Early Strawberry, 

 Gravenstein, 

 Fall Pippin, 



Madeleine, 



Dearborn's Seedling, 



Bloodgood, 



Tyson, 



Golden Beurre of Bilboa, 



Bartlett, 



Seckel, 



Flemish Beauty, 



Grosse Mignonne, 

 George FV., 

 Early York, serrated^ 

 Large Early York, 

 Morris White, 

 Oldmixon Freestone, 



Jefferson, 

 Green Gage, 

 Washington, 

 Purple Favorite, 

 Bleecker's Gage, 



Winter Nelis, 



Beurre d'Aremberg, 



And J for particular localities^ — 



White Doyenne, 



Gray Doyenne. 



PEACHES. 



Cooledge's Favorite, 



's Yellow, 

 Early Tillottson, 

 Crawford's Late, 

 And^ for particular localities^ — 

 Heath Cling. 



PLUMS. 



Coe's Golden Drop, 



Frost Gage, 



And^ for particular localities f^ 



Imperial Gage. • 



