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self. Mr. Barrv said that those varieties had not gone out of exist- 

 ence in his quarter of New- York. 



Mr. French, from what little he had seen of it, was disposed to 

 Ihink it was a fruit which every one in the world would wish to have. 

 Mr. S, B. Parsons thought there was great force in the remark of 

 Mr. Lines, Dr. Wendell would prefer that the committee should 

 withdraw the fruit, rather than that the meeting should vote to pass 

 it by. Should the latter course be taken, some persons might suppose 

 that we considered it unworthy of cultivation, while in fact it was 

 one of our very best varieties. He had no doubt that by another 

 year the Congress would be fully prepared to recommend it without 

 hesitation. 



Mr. Dow^ning thereupon withdrew the fruit in question from fur- 

 ther consideration for the present. ' 



Boston Pine. — Mr. Hancock had had in the course of three or four 

 years only one crop from this variety. It was a good fruit but a shy 

 Dearer. 



Mr. Pardee had found it at New-Haven a strong and excellent 

 Dearer, and the fruit of delicious flavor. Mr. Terry said it had suc- 

 ceeded admirably at Hartford with several gentlemen who tried it on 

 different soils. It was esteemed very highly for its mild and agree- 

 able flavor. It was better than Hovey's Seedling, which grew near 

 and was fertilised by it. 



Mr. Manice said it grew very well in hills, but not so well in 

 beds ; in hills it was a great bearer — better than Hovey's. Mr. 

 Miller said it was a very pleasant and productive fruit, with a 

 large, fine appearing berry. It was fully equal to Hovey's, and infe- 

 rior perhaps to the Black Prince alone. 



Mr. French had seen it very fine indeed at Hovey's garden and 

 elsewhere. In 1848 he tried the experiment of cultivating a square 

 yard each with the Boston Pine, the Willey and the Jenney. They 

 were all picked by a careful hand, and the result was — Boston Pine, 

 \\ pints; Willey, 1 quart, 3 gills ; Jenney, 1 quart, 1 gill, Mr. 

 Lines said that after he planted his out, for the first year the bearing 

 was small ; in the second it improved ; and in the third it was 

 enormous. It was better to grow the fruit in hills 



Mr. Walker said that for the first year or two he had not been 

 very favorably impressed by the Boston Pine, and had not yet sub- 

 stituted it for the Early Virginia. But what he had seen of it 



