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phy of fruits and flowers ^vilhin its wall?. lie wanted again to 

 mingle in the cro\Yds{hat thronged its precirJcls, and whatever squeeze 

 gentlemen might be subjected to, he hoped they would not squeeze 

 out of these resolutions the provision for assembling at Philadelphia 

 in 1852. 



Mr. HovEY remarked, that he had no objection to the resolution in 

 itself, but he feared it might tend to create some sectional bias or 

 prejudice. He wished to know if the present officers and members 

 of the Congress would hold over until the time in question. 



The Chair replied that they would not. New members must be 

 chosen for the next Congress and new officers, after it had assembled. 



Mr. HovEY said he had so supposed ^ and since there might be an 

 entirely new set of delegates at Cincinnati,^ in courtesy to them, at 

 least, it would be well to leave the choice of a place for the succeed- 

 inff session in their hands. 



Mr. Hancock declared that if he had any personal choice in the 

 m?.4ter, it was in favor of Philadelphia, but it was the precedent of 

 fixing a place so long beforehand that he feared. He was well aware 

 tha't none but the kindest feelings actuated the committee, but all 

 precedents, which some times caused so much trouble, grew up in the 

 same way ; and if this Congress could fix the place of meeting two 

 years in advance, it might do so for ten or twenty years ahead ; and 

 though, individually, he should be glad to have the session of 1852 

 held in Philadelphia, his favoritism would not suffer him to go beyond 

 the expression of that individual feeling. 



The question was then put upon the motion to strike out, and it 

 was rejected. The report was then accepted, and the resolutions 

 adopted as they came from the committee. 



Mr. Gabriel, of New-Haven, said he wished to retract the objec- 

 tion he made in the forenoon to the rejection of the Fondante d' Eie 

 pear. He had in his mind at the time tlie Doyenne (T Eie. Accord- 

 ingly the Fondante cP EiS was again placed in the list of rejected 

 pears. 



The General Fruit Committee was then called upon to proceed in 

 ils report. 



Mr. Downing begged leave to continue, by submitting for the ap- 

 proval of the Congress, a list of fruits which the committee regarded 

 as worthy of general culti\'ation. With regard to Pears the Conven- 



