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buds from the portions of apple trees which had superior fruit 

 and used them as scions for grafting on more hardy stock. As 

 a result of the third selection (generation) he obtains an apple 

 which has the excellence of flavor of the earlier fruit to which 

 has been added greater vigor and hardiness of the tree and 

 greater uniformity of fruit. 



Altogether, the report of the Conference will be veiy helpful 

 to plant breeders as well as to those who are more particularly 

 interested in the theoretical phases of the subject, and the Horti- 

 cultural Society is to be congratulated on its excellent appearance. 



W. A. Cannon. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 Wednesday, November 30, 1904 



The meeting was called to order at the usual' hour at the New 

 York Botanical Garden, Professor L. M. Underwood in the chair ; 

 twenty members present. 



A painting of the Gloriosa Lily {Methojtica superbd) was 

 received through President Brown from Mrs. Annie Eliza Scott 

 Guerritore, of Naples, Italy. On motion a vote of thanks was 

 ordered transmitted to Mrs. Guerritore and the picture was turned 

 over to the Botanical Garden for exhibition purposes. 



The following were elected to membership : Miss Mabel Den- 

 ton of Paterson, N. J. ; Mr. C. B. Robinson of New York City, 

 and Dr. G. H. Shul! of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. 



The first paper on the scientific program was entitled " Recent 

 Contributions to our Knowledge of Paleozoic Seed Plants" and 

 was by P^dward W. Berry.* It consisted of a brief discussion of 

 recent contributions to our knowledge of those Paleozoic pteri- 

 dophytes which had formed, or approximated the seed habit, the 

 work of Professors Scott, Oliver, Kidston, Grand' P^ury, Zeiller, 

 and Renault, l^lspccial attention was given to the work of Scott 

 and of Oliver and to what amounted to a demonstration by them 

 of seed-bearing in the Cycadofilicean genus Lyginodoidron {Sphen- 

 opteris). Discussion by Drs. Britton andMacDougal followed. 



* This paper was published in full in ToRREYA for December, 1904. 



