1811 



THE WESTERN POMOLOGIST. 



rain fall of more than eleven Inches, and with it fol- 

 lowed the blight. When this increase of rain has 

 not taken place in Kansas there has been no blight, 

 and a soil or location thoroughly drained and dry 

 was indispensible to the successful culture of the 

 Pear. At the 



EVENING SESSION, 



Capt. James Christian read a very interesting essay 

 on Floriculture, which was too good and witty for 

 us to attempt to describe or give even the substance 

 of, which wc may hereafter procure for publication. 

 Following it, Dr. J. Stayman was called on by the 

 Chair, at the request of a number of persons, to give 

 an essay on the Philosophy of Pruning, which was 

 read before a large and intelligent audience, causing 

 a very animated di.scussion the whole of the eve- 

 ning. The substance of the essay commences in the 

 PoMOLOOiST, January, under the head, " Should 

 Trees be Pruned" and will be continued through 

 its pages until completed — which wc hope will be 

 carefully read and digested. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING. 



There were several verbal reports made. One by 

 Prof. Kelsey, stating that the fruit trees had went 

 into winter quarters in good condition. That all 

 the trees in full bloom in April last were killed by 

 the frost. In some situations they had done well 

 were not so much advanced ; and in late-blooming 

 varieties, as the Jennett, done well. But the fruit 

 in general was very much injured, and half of the 

 strawberries and peaches were destroyed. Sir. Soule, 

 of Lawrence, made a similar verbal report about to 

 the same effect. 



Dr. Howsley also made a report from one of our 

 most extensive fruit merchants of Leavenworth, 

 stating that this season there was shipped to Kansas 

 over #200,000 worth of green fruit; showing the 

 great demand and want of supply this season, 

 and if it had been cheap much more would have 

 been consumed ; and that there was no fruit shipped 

 here that surpassed the fruit of 1869 in size, variety, 

 quality and keeping ; giving great encouragement to 

 the fruit-grower here ; showing the rapid increase 

 in the consumption of fruit with the increase of im- 

 migration, which will continue to increase for many 

 years to come. 



The revision of the fruit list then commenced with 

 the Strawberry. Wilson's was the only one recom- 

 mended for general cultivation, and Downer Prolific 

 for trial. 



Raspberry— The Large Miami Black Cap or Mam- 

 moth Cluster, and Doolittle, were recommended for 

 general cultivation. 



The Blackberry list embraced Kittatinny only, for 

 general cultivation. 



Currants for general cultivation : Red Dutch, 

 White Grape, and White Dutch. 

 Gooseberries : Houghton Seedling and Cluster. 



APTEHNOON SESSION. 



The regular order of business was the election of 

 officers, which resulted in the following : 



Prmdent — Dr. W. M. Ilowsle^'. 



Vice President— P\-oi. B. F. Mudge. 



Secretary — G. C. Brackett. 



Treasurer— %. T. Kelsey. 



The next in order was an essay by Rev. Mr. Gale, 

 read by Rev. R. D. Parker, Mr. Gale being too un- 

 well to attend the meeting. 



We cannot attempt to do justice to this essay, as 

 it was one of the best we ever heard upon that sub- 

 ject, and hope to be able to give it in full in our 

 journal hereafter. 



After the reading of it, Mr. R. S. Elliott, of the 

 Kansas Pacific R. R., was called upon and gave us a 

 short dissertation on the importance of forest cul- 

 ture in Kansas, of what he was doing and going to 

 do in that respect in the West on the railroad lands, 

 and induce others to plant trees. He expected the 

 settlers along the railroad lands would engage in 

 planting, and co-operate with him, for the general 

 good. The Chestnut, Cottonwood, Maple and Elm 

 were highly spoken of, and the European Larch. 



THUKSDAY MOBNING. 



The revision of the apple list being in order, the 

 following varieties were recommended— those with 

 two stars for general crltivation ; those with one 

 star highly recommended, and those with a dash, 

 on trial : 



Red June ** Kansas Keeper * 



Early Harvest * Fall Wine — 



Cooper's E. White * Fameuse * 



Sweet June * Rome Beauty * 



Red Astrachan * Bailey Sweet * 



Maiden Blush ** Hays' Wine * 



McAflec's Nonesuch ** Ortley * 

 Mo. Pippin * Gilpin * 



Sweet Romanite * Jonathan * 



W. W. Peanuain * Kirby Red * 



Wine Sap ** Waguer * 



Ben Davis * Lowell ** 



Willowtwig ** A. S. Pearmain ** 



Smokehouse * 



Standa/rds. 

 Bartlett ** 

 Seckel ** 

 Flemish Beauty * 

 Doyenne d'Ete — 

 White Doyenne * 

 Belle Lucrative * 

 Howell — 

 Lawrence — 

 Sheldon — 



PEAKS. 



Swarf. 

 Rostiezer — 

 T3'son * 



Doj'cnnc Boussock ** 

 Swan's Orange — 

 Beurre Diel — ' 

 Duchesse d'Angoulerce ' 

 Howell * 

 Easter Beurre — 

 Lawrence * 



LAST EVENINO SESSION. 



The resignation of our former President, Wm. 

 Tanner, of Leavenworth, on account of ill health, 

 was read and accepted. When a unanimous vote 

 of thanks was passed for the earnest and faithful 

 manner he discharged his duty while President of 

 the Society since its first organization. Who, we 



