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February It, 1863. 

 Mr. Edward Doughty, of New Jersey, in the chair. 



Winter Pears. 



Mr. Leifingwell exhibited the Columbia Virgalieu in good preservation. 

 These pears were fi^om the original tree on the Fox farm. West Farms, N. Y. 



Mr. Bergen exhibited the Easter Beurre and the Crassane; the latter is 

 not conceded a good pear, but as it is a good keeper, excellent for cooking, 

 and sells well in market, lie considers it a very profitable one to grow. The 

 best winter pear that he knows of, is one with that long, unpronounceable 

 French name, the Doyennd d'Hiver Nouveau, the synonym of which is 

 Doyenne d'Alencon. 



Apples. 



Mr. Carpenter exhibited a variety of apples; among them were the Bald- 

 win and Roxbury Russet. The latter apple, he thinks, cannot be advanta- 

 geously grown with us. 



Mr. A. L. Smith. — In my section this variety does well upon strongly 

 manured lands. I apply two loads to a tree. The well-manured fruit will 

 keep as well as potatoes, if put up in air-tight barrels. The Rhode Island 

 Greening is very uncertain. The fi'uit fails to ripen perfectly, and keeps 

 badly. The Baldwin apple does well upon dry, rich soil. I have five-year 

 old trees that yielded five barrels, by forcing the growth b}^ plowing and 

 manure upon the hoed crops. We consider the Baldwin one of the best 

 apples in our section of country, and it is very profitable. I have an orchard 

 of seven acres. The last season I picked five barrels off some of the trees, 

 which are now eleven years old. Joseph Wellington, West Cambridge, 

 Mass., has an orchard of thirty acres of Baldwin apples, which he values at 

 $30,000. This orchard had produced an income of $3,000 a year. In Con- 

 necticut there is an orchard, where the owner keeps hogs in it, that produces 

 good Greenings, but they do not keep as well as Baldwins. I would sooner 

 have a crop of Baldwins every other year than a crop of Rhode Island 

 Greenings every year. The trees of the Rhode Island Greenings are infec- 

 ted by a worm, that does the orchardist great injury. 



Mr. Fuller. — Then it is not the quality of the apple you object to, but the 

 worm that infects the trees. 



Mr. Carpenter. — Our friend. Dr. Trimble, some weeks since presented a 

 ver}' superior apple, which he understood as originating in New Jersej^ I 

 was very much pleased with this apple, and as Dr. Trimble promised to 

 distribute grafts of this tree, I was in hopes of adding this variety to my 

 orchard; but since that time I have ascertained the history of the apple. 

 The original tree stands in the garden of Mr. Stephen P. Carpenter, of New 

 Rochelle. It has been called the Ferris apple, but is better known as the 

 Westchester Seek-no-further. 



Dr. Trimble. — From all the information I can get, it appears that the 

 apple originated in Albion, Orleans county, N. Y. I think our friend, Mr. 

 Carpenter, is mistaken in the location of this apple. 



Mr. John G. Bergen stated that a gentleman put up two barrels of apples, 

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