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Mr. Wakeman. — There is, at Bergen, a very fine apple, called 



Gosh jSpple. No one knows where it came from. I move that 



Charles Henry Hall and Henry Meigs be appointed on the com- 

 mittee. 



Adopted unanimously. 



The Club then adjourned. 



Mr. Meigs read the following translation from the Annales de la Societe Cen- 

 trale D'Horticulture Do Paris, 1848. Tlie Viscount Hericart de Thury's Report on 

 the Catalogue of Trees and Fruits of Messrs. Jamin and Durand, of Bourg la Reine, 

 near Paris. 



The nursery of Jamin and Durand is, if not the first, certainly 

 among those of the first rank in France, or elsewhere. It is an estab- 

 lishment of the order. Admirable in ail respects for fine keeping, per- 

 fect culture, — for the severe choice of kinds of fruit, — for the beauty 

 of the trees, — for the excellent disposal of everything in detail as 

 well as a whole. 



The fruit trees have come from all quarters, and of eveiy variety. 

 Messrs. J. & 1). are in constant intercourse and exchange with nu- 

 merous foreign and French nurserymen; and they have, by conscien- 

 tious pains, and serene study, obtained all the varieties which are 

 now considered to be truly of the first quality. They have now in 

 their nursery, different kinds of 



Apricots, — 23 



Cherries, 66 



Peaches, 54 



Plums, (of which 7 are prunes), 76 



Pears, (of which 31 are for preserves), - 720 



Apples, 206 



Grape Vines, 150 



Currants, 10 



Gooseberries, 60 



All other fruits; and they have four hundred kinds of roses, 



Van Mons says that the great variety of fruits enjoyed by the 

 Romans were nearly all of foreign origin. They sowed the seeds 



