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Remarks. — In the close of the year 1810, I furnished 

 my brother, H. T. Kirtland, with a few seeds of the Seckel 

 Pear, grown in the State of Connecticut. From these, he 

 raised several trees on his farm, in Poland, Mahoning County, 

 Ohio, one of which, he gave me in the year 1825, and which, 

 produced the fruit exhibited at the New York State Fair, last 

 autumn, at Buffalo, and noticed in Vol. VIII. pages 108 and 

 109, of Transactions of the New York State Agricultural So- 

 ciety. It is no novelty in Mahoning County, Ohio, but is well 

 known by every cultivator of fruit, and is esteemed as 

 one of the finest varieties. In hardiness and productiveness 

 it far excels the parent Seckel, and in point of flavor, is es- 

 teemed as superior by many people. 



The name attached to it, has designated it for years, and 

 was applied by the public as a compliment to the originator 

 of the seedling, Henry T. Kirtland. 



The remainder of the proceedings, making upwards of 

 forty-six pages, is filled with interesting reports from com- 

 mittees from the following States : — Illinois, by Dr. J. A, 

 Kennicoit ; New York, by Dr. H. Wendell ; also by W. R, 

 Coppock, for the western part of the State ; Ohio, by F. R. 

 Elliott ; Wisconsin, by F. R. Phoenix ; Michigan, by Dr. J, 

 C. Holmes ; Vermont, by C. Goodrich. These reports, par- 

 ticularly those from Dr. Kennicott and Dr. Wendell, are 

 long, and contain much information of a general, as well as 

 local character, and we shall, from time to time, notice them 

 as we may have space to do so. Mr. Elliott describes and 

 figures a seedling Morello cherry, originated by Prof. Kirtland 

 some twenty years since, called the Shannon. With such 

 reports spread before the public, the convention may well 

 claim the thanks of all pomologists and fruit cultivators. If 

 no other results than these shall be realized from similar con- 

 ventions, their annual or biennial meeting will be of great 

 value and importance to the advancement of horticultural 

 science throughout the country. 



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