PROCEEDINGS OF THE HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. .629 



rations for the tabic. Such decorations imparl an air of elegance and 

 refinement to an apartment or to a festive occasion, and if the desultory 

 remarks which 1 have had the honor of offering to you should afford any 

 instructive hints, and aid any of my hearers to carry out some pleasant or 

 beautiful idea, I shall feel pleasure in the thought that I have been the 

 means of affording any assistance to them. 



Mr. Bull moved that a vote of thanks bo tendered to Messrs. Mead and 

 Hogg ft)r the interesting remarks made by them, and that they be requested 

 to furnish copies thereof for the Transactions of the Association. Carried. 



The Secretary called the attention of the members to some bunches of the 

 Wistaria alba, a seedling from the W. Fortescue, brought by Mr. A. S, Fuller, 

 of Brooklyn. This plant he received last year from Messrs. EUwanger & 

 Barry, of Rochester, who produced it from seed. 



On motion, adjourned to Tuesday, the 28th of June, at 8 o'clock. 



John W. Chambers, liec. Sec'y. 



June 28, 1864. 



Mr. Berljamin C. Townsend, President, in the chair. 



Mr. Wm. R. Prince read a paper on Garden and Orchard Fruit, particu- 

 larly the strawbery, embracing most of the matter presented by him at the 

 Farmers' Club in 1862. * 



On motion of Mr. A. Nash, the thanks of the Association were given to 

 Mr. Prince for his very interesting remarks. 



Mr. Nash said that it seemed to be a desire of Nature that the human 

 family should live on the fruits of the earth. We are informed that our 

 first parents lived in a garden, and subsisted on the fruits thereof. Animal 

 food was then unknown. So we sec that fruit was the original food of 

 niJiM. It is a diet that the sick person longs for, and which aids very mate- 

 rially in his recovery when animal food is forbidden. 



As to the strawberry, it is the only fruit that will grow within the Arctic 

 circle. It is found even at Spitzbergen on the south side of the line. But 

 in order to have the fruit sweet, a certain heat is necessary, hence it is that 

 our sweet fruits are found only further south. The remarks of Mr. Prince 

 have been so very interesting and instructive, he moved that he be re- 

 quested to address the Association at some future meeting on the subject 

 of the grape. The resolution was adopted. 



The Strawberry. 



Jlr. Prince, in answer to several inquiries by the President, said that 

 the strawberry failed in England on account of disregarding the law of 

 the sexuality of the plant. Prof. Lindsley, who for twenty years past, 

 has been tiie editor of the London Horticulturist, a journal widely circu- 

 lated in England, has always warred against the sexuality of the straw- 

 berry. Some two years ago he (Mr. Prince) took up this subject and 

 wrote an article, which was published in the New York Horticulturist, in 

 which this subject was treated at lengtli, and which was copied into the 

 London Technologist, occupying some twelve pages. Yet, notwithstand- 



