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2c!. That the Executive Committee take such measures as may be 

 necessary ''to enforce the rule, that no one shall be allowed in the 

 hall at the close of the exhibition except those that have a pass with 

 permission to remove goods." 



3d. That this Societj' recommend the passage of a law by the 

 State Legislature fixing the size of the apple barrel. 



4th. That the President and Secretary of the Society take such 

 measures as may seem proper to them to secure horticultural statis- 

 tics, to confer with the Commissioner of Agriculture and other horti- 

 cultural societies for the purpose, and to promulgate from time to 

 time such information as will be of value to fruit growers of the 

 State. 



The report was accepted and the following action taken upon it: 

 Under topic 1, Samuel Rolfe, W. P. Atherton, and D. P. True were 

 appointed a committee on nomenclature ; No. 2 was adopted ; No. 

 3 was tabled ; No. 4 was adopted, and referred to the Executive 

 Committee for being carried out. The business meeting then ad- 

 journed and the public session opened. 



PUBLIC SESSION". 



The hour at which the public session for the evening was fixed 

 having arrived, President Pope called the meeting to order and intro- 

 duced the Secretary, Mr. Boardmau, who read the following paper. 



AN APPLE : HOW TO PICK IT, AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT. 



By the Secretary, Samuel L. Boardman. 



AVell has Downing called the apple, "The world-renowned fruit of 

 temperate climates." Like wheat among the cereals, and the potato 

 among vegetables, it stands with them at the head of its class and 

 may most appropriately be denominated the ''King of Fruits." No 

 other fruit of the temperate zone has so wide a distribution, or at- 

 tains excellence in so extensive a range of countries — being found as 

 it is in nearly the whole of Europe, Northern Africa, Northern Asia, 

 China, Japan, throughout the whole of North America, in South 

 America (being abundant in Soutliern Ciiili) and in Australia. In 

 fact, whfiesoever civilization has planted its home — in all the tem- 

 perate Intitudes of the globe — there this king of fruits may be found 

 not far from the cottage door, and its fragrant bins, in all their 

 unctuous iK-auty, repose in the home cellar. Li the United States apple 

 orchards are cultivated from Florida to Alaska — even in so hisrh a 



