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on the list by our western friends. I think it over-rated. It is a showj 

 apple, but its great weight renders it liable to drop from the tree. 



Dr. C. W. Grant — The Baldwin I think one of the best apples. I do not 

 know whore to find a better orchard apple. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter. — I cannot put the Baldwin above a second class 

 apple, but still it is a valuable tree for our orchards. It keeps well, but 

 there is a greenness about the Baldwin that I do not like. It will not 

 compare with many of the apples I have named. 



Dr. C. W. Grant. — When the trees are properly thinned, the flavor of the 

 apple is greatly improved. We have been shipping it to England as one 

 of our best apples. Sometimes from the effects of the sun it becomes spot- 

 ted, which injures its flavor and appearance. 



On motion of Mr. Carpenter it was resolved that an invitation be extended 

 to the Eev. Dr. Campbell to address the association on the subject of Botany 

 at its next meeting. 



On motion the following committee was appointed to invite gentlemen 

 to lecture or give addresses before the association during its winter meet- 

 ings. Messrs. Carpenter, Mead and Henderson. Adjourned. 



John W. Chambers, Secretary. 



December 13, 18G4. 



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



Mr. E. Williams, Montclair, N. J., exhibited several varieties of apples 

 -which he said were sent him by a gentleman formerly a neighbor of his, 

 but now living in Ohio. Two specimens of Fall pippin that had been kept 

 in an open room with plenty of air circulating around them. They are 

 well preserved, and will keep so until January, These are called the 

 Eomariite of the West, and are very sweet and pleasant to the taste. Spit- 

 zenbeig apples from Ohio, and Rhode Island greenings, and a variety 

 called the Hartley pippin. Here is an apple that is so different in shape, 

 size and appearance, that he did hot recognize it. It is one of the hardest 

 apples that he ever saw. The apples of this tree are inclined to flatten on 

 the lower branches, while those on the top are more conical. 'This was the 

 prevailing feature of the specimens grown in Ohio. 



These specimens are Jersey cider apples. They can be made a football 

 of and not be injured, and where they become bruised, the spots dry up and 

 never cause them to rot. This is the Canfield apple which makes the 

 famous Newark cider. Twenty or thirty years ago there was no apple so 

 well grown as the Canfield ; it has now greatly deteriorated on account of 

 the vast increase of insects every year, and the soil becoming exhausted. 

 The young trees are not what we should expect. Apples this year do not 

 keep so well en account of the very dry sun)mer we have had, 



French Fruit. 

 Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter submitted the following report, which was 

 accepted : 



The committee appointed to examine the collection of pears and apples, 



