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the audacity to claim the Black Republican cherry as an Oregon production; 

 one gentleman said he had produced it in Iowa; now it happened that I 

 chanced to have a farm close to him, and I could no more get a Black 

 Republican cherry tree to grow there than I could on top of Mount Shasta. 

 I have eaten that Black Republican cherry in Europe off trees older than 

 either you or I. I think that that Italian Plum should be called the Mus- 

 sel Plum. I have seen it grow in Italy and in the various provinces of 

 Southern Europe, and is called so from one of two sources: the shape of it 

 is something like a mussel; it may have been derived from that, but I think 

 the far more reasonable supposition is, that way back in the fifteenth cen- 

 tury, at the time of the crusaders in Palestine through Turkey, that that 

 plum was brought from there because there was the center of all civiliza- 

 tion, both in science and agriculture, where the Moors and Saracens held 

 possession, and if it was brought from that country and was named the 

 Mussel Plum from being taken from those Musselmans, I think that is the 

 proper name for the Italian Prune. 



NEW SEEDLING APPLE. 



Mr. Wickson: There are some apples produced here — seedling — and I 

 would like to have a committee appointed to examine and name them. 



The Chair appointed as such committee John Rock, C. W. Reed, and B. 

 G. Stabler. 



LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. 



The Chair appointed as a committee to act in conjunction with the State 

 Board of Horticulture, relating to the law about insect pests and a new 

 appropriation, Hon. W. H. Aiken, Hon. S. J. Stabler, Hon. William John- 

 ston, Mr. Milton Thomas, and Mr. P. W. Butler. 



Here a recess was taken until two o'clock in the afternoon. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION. 



Hon. W. H. Aikin read the report of the committee, which was adopted,, 

 as follows: 



Chico, California, November 23, 1888. 



To Fruit Growers Convention of California: 



Your committee appointed to consider and report upon legislation and increase of 

 appropriation for the annual expenses of the State Board of Horticulture, respectfully 

 report a memorial to this Legislature for an increased appropriation. The same to be pre- 

 sented to his Excellency the Governor of the State, and to the Senate and Assembly, in 

 Legislature assembled, through the Secretary of this convention. 



W. H. AIKEN, 

 Chairman of Committee. 



MEMORIAL TO THE LEGISLATURE. 



Chico, California, November 23, 1888. 



To the honorable the Senate and Assembly of the State of California, in Legislature assembled: 



Your memorialists, the fruit growers of the State of California, in their annual convention 

 at Chico, this twenty-third day of November, 1888, most respectfully represent : 



That the soil and climate of this State are adapted to the growth and preparation of 

 fruits of good quality, and in quantities sufficient, eventually, to supply the demand for 

 such products in the United States. 



