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Mr. McIntosh said he commenced growing it at one time for mar- 

 ket and planted an acre of ground with it at Cleveland. For three 

 years it was the only variety he could rely on for a crop. 



Mr. Hamilton said he had known it for thirty years. It might be 

 seen in every farmer's garden ; it was a universal trespasser, growing 

 all over fences and almost everywhere else. It was a very prolific 

 bearer and very hardy, and his wife had often expressed her regret 

 that he had extirpated it, on account of its yielding so large a crop. 

 He thought Mr. Parsons referred to this same variety. 



Mr. Terry knew the fruit thirty years ago, and if it was a foreign 

 variety it had become perfectly naturalized long since. The habits 

 of the plant were, as Mr. Hamilton had described, growing upsome 

 six feet or more, and then bending down towards the ground. Mr. 

 Reid also thought it a native variety. 



Mr. Parsons withdrew his motion. 



Mr. Hamilton moved to add the Franconia to the list, and this 

 was voted without opposition or debate. 



FOREIGN grapes, FOR CULTURE UNDER GLASS. 



The seven varieties which were adopted without deoate, will be 

 found in the general list of recommended fruits. 



Chasselas Musque. — Mr. Hovey said this was an old grape, known 

 some thirty or forty years, and one of the most delicious of all. But 

 there was one fault about it, it would crack. He had three vines, 

 from which he had this season forty pounds. It was a very fine 

 bearer, and if cultivators kept the scissors at work amongst the 

 cracked grapes in the bunches, they would obtain a fine fruit. 



Mr. S. B. Parsons thought it inferior to the Golden Chasselas, 

 Mr. Gabriel inquired whether the committee intended that fire-heat 

 should be applied or not. 



Mr. Downing answered, that it would do either way, under glass 

 it did not crack with him. Mr. Hovey said the English cultivators 

 recommended it. 



The question was put, and there being but one majority for its 

 a op ion, Mr. Downing withdrew it. 



Mr. Manice moved to add the Syrian. It was a very fine fruit. 

 Mr. Hancock considered the Syrian only a second-rate grape, though 

 he had known its clusters attain the weight of eight pounds and a 

 half in his neighborhood. Mr. Hovey said that in cold houses — 



