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too long, say till March, the fruit bcrame dry, and its good qualities 

 were sacrificed. Eut if catcni in January, it was very good. The 

 Hulbardsion Monsuch apple was adopted. 



Fameuse Jlpple. — Mr. French said that in November, when it 

 would otherwise be difficult to find a table apple, the Fameuse was in 

 good, eating order. The fruit was of fine flavor, though not a very 

 great grower. 



Col. Hodge had fruited it for twenty years. It required high cul- 

 ture, and when grown on rich land, was one of the very best. It 

 some times bore too great a crop. It came from Canada. 



Mr. Miller had grown it on upland, and he concurred in the re- 

 marks of Col. Hodge. 



Mr. McIntosh said that in Ohio, they could not get it higher up 

 than gccd; it was not very good. 



Mr. Downing regarded it as one of the very finest dessert apples. 



The Femeuse apple was adopted. 



Minister Jlpple. — Mr. Buist inquire i if this was the same as that 

 awful, distorted, blue, green thing whiil ht had seen at Providence, 

 uniler the same name 1 



Mr. Manning replied that the apple now under consideration had 

 none of those attributes. He did not know of any that he should 

 prefer to it except the Baldwin, and if he could have but half a dozen 

 trees, the Minister should certainly be one of them. 



Mr. HovEY had no doubt that Mr. Buist saw the Minister apple 

 at Providence, though for ^is own part, he had never seen it cither 

 blue or green. He had, however, seen the Baldwin of very little 

 color. The Minister was a very fine flavored apple. 



Mr. Hancock said it was always of an ugly shape. 



Mr. Barry said it was very little known in western New-York, 

 and it was his impression that it was only within two or three years 

 that it had been generally known any where. It was entirely new 

 to the western States, and he thought it had not been sufficiently 

 tested to warrant its approval by this Congress: 



Mr. Buist said that this year the fruits that had been received frotn 

 the east and north, and recom.raendod as being of the first quality, 

 had not so proved in his climate. He assured the assembly that he 

 woulil not allow the Minister apple to be propagated in his nursery 

 this season. 



