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As regards the best pear, the Chau* and most of the other mem- 

 bers were m favor of namiug the Bartlett. 



Mr. Peck said that, for the climate of Albany, where it will come 

 late and can be kept, it is the best; but on the warm Jersey lands 

 it comes early, and often must be sold cheap. 



Mr. Evlin said the other kind are uncertain on Jersey soil, and 

 they are cultivating the Bartlett almost exclusively. 



The Chairman said he had a standard Bartlett in bearing four 

 years old. 



STRAWBEEBIES AND GRAPES AT PITTSBURG. 



Gen. J. S. Nagley stated that the strawbeny crop 'this year, at 

 Pittsburg was the finest they had ever grown. While the market 

 «)f New York was glutted, their fruit, brought hither, sold at sixty 

 cents a quart. Grapes are doing uncommonly well, and little fault 

 was found even with such varieties as the lona, Delaware, and 

 Catawba. Although Pittsburg is a favorable locality for fruit, it 

 is no better than through a vast extent of that State. The secret 

 of their great success has been ascribed to the soil, and to the coal 

 smoke, but this is not so; it is in having vigorous vines and plants, 

 and a thorough knowledge of the business. The General then 

 extended an invitation to the Club to visit the vineyards in Sep- 

 tember, which was accepted by Dr. Trimble and some others. 



Mr. J. R. Sypher. — I have visited Mr. Knox's grounds, and have 

 been made acquainted, in part, with the method of cultivation. 

 If a full description of the course pursued could be imparted to 

 this Club, great progress would be made in the cultivation of fruit. 



OVERTAXING SOILS. 



Dr. J. E. Snodgrass read an interesting paper on this subject, 

 BUggested by a visit to Vineland, with which place he appeared 

 much pleased. He warned cultivators against the practice, too 

 common on small pieces of ground, of taxing the soil with the 

 production of a great variety of fruit, and beyond its capacity. 



THE KTITATINNY BLACKBERRY. 



Those members who last week visited the grounds of this fruit 

 in Newton, Sussex county, reported on what they saw. Mr. E. 

 Williams, of Mont Clair, N. J., who owns the original plants, 

 planned this excursion and carried it out successfully. Passes were 

 furnished the Club on the railroad; and at Newton an excellent 

 dinner was provided at the Anderson House, when they visited 



