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Mr. Pettit said the Champion was poor in quality, but profitable 

 on account of its earliness. 



Mr. C. P. Carpenter thought the three varieties best for profit 

 were the Delaware, Concord and Eogers' No. 4. 



Mr. A. H. Pettit had picked a ton and a quarter of Concords off 

 one hundred vines during the past season, and had received for them 

 the sum of $129.00. 



Mr. Barnes gave the following as his list for profit, viz : Delaware, 

 Rogers' No. 4, a good shipper, and keeps till March 1st in box with 

 chaff; Eogers' No. 3 sells well in Montreal as a red grape ; Eogers' No. 

 9 and 22. The last mentioned does not ripen well at Hamilton, but 

 it ripens nicely at St. Catharines. The Concord he would place at the 

 bottom of the list, because it is a poor shipper. 



Dr. Eead finds Concord injured by too high cultivation. He 

 thought people pruned the grape too much, and would get better crops 

 by longer pruning. 



The next question taken up was "The Yellows, its nature and 

 remedy." Dr. Watt being unable to be present, sent in a paper on the 

 subject, which wall appear in the next number. 



Mr. Pettit had instances of it, but cut down the trees as fast as it 

 appeared. 



Mr. Jonathan Carpenter did not agree with Mr. Downing that 

 Yellows are produced on poor soil ; nor by poor cultivation, for it 

 appears under the best cultivation. The U. S, Commissioner appointed 

 to investigate the matter declares it to be a fungous growth, and hence 

 the only remedy is the destruction of the trees. 



Mr. Adolphus Pettit thought it spread from pollen. He had set 

 some trees from the south about eight years ago, but the disease did 

 not spread to other trees until blossoms were developed. 



Mr. E. J. Woolverton agreed with Mr. Pettit, because a branch only 

 is sometimes diseased ; evidently the work of bees about blossoming 

 time. He had cut down about 25 trees in his orchard of about 2,000. 



In the absence of Mr. A. M. Smith, who was appointed to introduce 

 the subject of small fruits, the meeting proceeded to take up the last, 

 and to the ladies present the most interesting subject of the evening, 

 viz : " The cultivation of flowers." Mr. J. H. Grout introduced this 

 subject by reading a paper. 



After some further discussion, the meeting adjourned. 



