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tages of liaving lain three days on our exliibition tables at the annual 

 meeting, and of having made a journey of fifteen hundred miles by 

 express, I hope they will reach you in such a condition that you will 

 be able to judge of their quality and external appearance. 

 I am, with much respect, yom-s, &c, 



D. W. ADAMS, 



Secretarrj, I. S. IT. S. 



The following is the list of names of the varieties presented. They * 

 were a beautiful show of apples indeed, and rarely equaled in any 

 fruit show, and never excelled : 



Fall pippin, white pippin, mother, Rhode Island greening, Yande- 

 vur, Roman stem, Virginia greening, Pennock's red winter, black 

 gilliflower, Hubbardston nonsuch, Smith's cider, Newtown spitzen- 

 berg, Rawl's jannet, Belmont gate, Jonathan, Peck's pleasant, Milam, 

 white winter pearmain, big romanite, white bellsflower, yellow bells- 

 flower, Ben Davis ISTew York pippin, Pambo, willow twig, Fulton, 

 Pome beauty, Dominie, Talman sweet, wine sap, Swaar, Oskaloosa, 

 (an Iowa seeding), Tulpchocking, green sweet, northern spy, little 

 romanite galpin, Esopus spitzenberg, black apple — thirty-seven varie- 

 ties. 



Mr. "W. S. Carpenter, who is a large apple grower, commented 

 quite fully on this display. He says the Phode Island greening is 

 the most universal apple we have growing on a greater variety of 

 soils and under circumstances more unlike than any other. lie com- 

 raends'^the Pome beaut}' as a splendid 'and very marketable apple, 

 also the Dominie. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller remarked that all these apples came from the east, 

 and the show is a proof that the apple belt is moving west, for New 

 England nor New York could not to-day get up so fine a spread of 

 large, handsome fruit. Mr. Crane of New Jersey said he lives in a 

 region once famous for its apples ; now they have to buy from New 

 York and the west. These apples have flourished because the ene- 

 mies of this noble fruit, the canker worm, the tent worm, the slug, 

 and the curculio, have not carried their line of invasion across the 

 Mississippi river ; but they will, and then Iowa will be calling on the 

 Pocky mountains for apples. 



Cattle Diseases. 



Prof. John Gamgee, from the Department of Agriculture at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, sends the following communication : The members of 



