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Jie on!y feasible wny of getting at the desired result, anil if it \Yerc 

 Oi he imagined, then (liis was only n rejected list for Massachusctls, 

 pjid not a general list of rejected pears sent forth under the authority 

 of the Congress. 



Mr. S, 15. Parsons rather regretted to obsers'e an indisposition to 

 establish a list of rejected fruits. The Convention of last year, and 

 the present Congress, had assembled for the purpose of collecting, and 

 afterwards publicly diffusing all the knowledge concerning the culture 

 of fruits, the varieties to be preferred, and those to be avoided, which 

 it was possible to obtain. This body was engaged in laying down a 

 pomological chart, on which it was certainly very desirable, not only 

 to trace a channel for full, good, and safe navigationjljut also to point 

 out distinctly, all the shoals and quicksands, and not oblige mariners 

 to discover them by running upon them. He therefore hoped that 

 the list would be considered and adooted, so far as might be deemed 

 expedient for general information. 



Dr. Kennicott, of Illinois, hoped that a rejected list would be de- 

 cided upon J as otherwise fruit growers v;ould never get a settled and 

 approved list. A beginning ought to be made, and if we could begin 

 at both ends, recommending some varieties and rejecting others alto- 

 gether, so much the better. 



Mr. Underbill, of New-Jersey, said we had so great a variety of 

 country and climate, that it seemed as if rejected fruits should be 

 considered as rejected only for particular localities and conditions. 

 It \vas impossible to make a list of rejected varieties that should be 

 applicable, in all respects, to the whole country, but each portion 

 must judge for itself. 



Mr. Hancock moved that the list offered be considered and entered 

 on the records, as from the Massachusetts committee, and applicable 

 only to Massachusetts. The Congress must come to that in the end, 

 for every State locality, if the present course was to be pursued ; 

 for it was impossible to frame a list of fruits that ought to be rejected 

 throughout the whole country, from Maine and Massachusett^.in the 

 north, to North Carolina and Georgia in the south, and Illinois and 

 Wisconsin in the west. For himself, in regard io the Ambrosia pear, 

 he had fruited that variety, and found it good for two years, and the 

 same had been the case in his neighborhood. 



Mr. Downing said that if the basis spoken off by the last gentle- 



