214 transactions of the american institute. 



Greenwich Apple. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter presented specimens of this aople. Its color red, 

 similar in appearance to the Baldwin. Its flavor is good, and keeps well. 

 It is only known in the vicinity of Greenwich, Connecticut, where it is 

 highly esteemed. 



How TO Pack Fruit to Keep. 



Mr. John G. Bergen. — I think this would be an excellent subject for dis- 

 cussion. How to pack fruit at home or for market, including all the forms 

 of preservation of all kinds of fruit, and I hope it may be kept before the 

 Club until something valuable is elicited from those present or from cor- 

 respondents. 



Mr. Carpenter. — I have tried oats with the chaff, just as they are 

 threshed. Fruit packed in this material keeps in perfect order. 



Rev. Mr. Weaver. — I use bran, and I find that it is an excellent article 

 to pack fruit in. 



Prof. Mapes. — I tried an experiment with grapes this season. I used 

 the wooden boxes such as we send strawberries to market in. The boxes 

 are made very open. In these I put- a bunch of grapes each, and put them 

 into the case, so that each bunch occupies a box; the air circulates around 

 and between the boxes, and I find Isabellas, Catawbas and other varieties - 

 of grapes have kept well. 



The Secretary read an extract of a letter from Mr. John Bruce, Mariposa, 

 California, as follows: 



" Our wild mountain flowers, although very beautiful while they last, 

 yet are extremely short lived, and I fear would not thrive by cultivation, 

 as by June they are burned up by the heat of the sun, and do not appear 

 again until next season, except those that grow in gulches and ravines 

 where the moisture lasts longer. 



"I look for a great crop of fruit next season from the trees I planted this 

 spring. I had some fruit this season as an earnest of what is to come. 

 Peaches and grapes far exceed in sweetness and flavor the same kinds at 

 home. 



" The peculiarity that still attracts my attention in the growth of fruit of 

 all kinds here is, that although they are all imported trees, they seem to 

 completely change their nature, the fruit growing all in clusters like 

 grapes, and in such immense quantities that every limb has to be propped 

 up to sustain the weight of fruit, and this is invariably the case at all 

 gardens I have seen." 



Prof. Mapes. — It is undoubtedly more owing to the character of the soil 

 than to the climate. I have some trees that have been planted in very 

 carefully prepared soil, and properly fertilized, which I have been told very 

 much resemble California trees. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter. — I don't believe that it is all in the soil; because, 

 prepare it as you will, the trees will not produce as they do in California. 

 They set full of blossoms here as they do there, but do not produce such 

 wonderful crops of fruit. There must bi; something in the Pacific climate 

 to induce this fruitfulness. 



