lamologkai. 
AMERICAN POMOLOGIOA1 SOCIETY. 
Proceedinm of the Thirteenth Anniinl Set- 
•ioii) at Kiclimoiwl, !>?ei>t. G, 7 and S. 
Richmond, Va., Sept. 5,1871. 
One of the Editors of the Rural New- 
Yorker awoke in "Washington this mottl¬ 
ing, was transferred to the Potomac steamer, 
and found thereon large delegations from 
New York, New England, Illinois, Oldo, 
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Washington 
en route to Richmond. Arrived at Rich¬ 
mond after a delightful sail down the Poto¬ 
mac, and were most cordially' received by 
the Committee of Reception, represented by 
.John M. Ai.un, President of the Virginia 
Horticultural und Potnological Society. Af¬ 
ter dinner the Reception Committee enter¬ 
tained delegates by drives through this 
beautiful city. The spirit manifest and the 
welcome given is most commendable and 
cordial. 
Wednesday, Sept. 0, 
The Convention Convened 
at 9 A. M., President Marshall P. Wild¬ 
er in the Chair. John M. Allan, Presi¬ 
dent of the Va. Ilort. aud Polll. Society was 
introduced, aud welcomed the Society in 
cordial terms to Virginia aud Richmond. 
President Wilder responded in his usual 
happy and appreciative manner, after which 
the Committees were announced ns follows: 
On Credentials. —Wm. Saunders, District 
of Columbia; John C. Ib >vey, Mass.; Henry 
Ellwanger, N. Y.; John Morton, Va. 
On Binduces .—Parker Earle, III.; P. T. 
Quinn, N. J.; R BuisbPu.; Hon. W. Schley, 
G.i.; Dr. Win. Houaley, Kansas. 
On Nomination* of Officers. —J. M. Allan, 
Va.; W. C. Barry, N. Y.; John Saul, Dist. of 
Columbia; Hon. Joel Parker, Mass.; Joshua 
Lindsey, N. C.; John L. McIntosh, Ohio; 
VV. C. Flagg, III,; Thus. Meehan, Pa.; J. S. 
Downer. Ky.; Wm. Parry, N J.; Dr. Wylie, 
S. C.; Wm. Heaver, Tenn.; P. J. Bei'cUmans, 
Gh.; Edwin Hoyt, Ct.; Mark Miller, Iowa; 
R. W Furnas, Nebraska; Dr. J. S. Curtiss, 
Cal.; Col. Hardee, Fla.; Silas Moore, li. 1.; 
Col. Langdon, Ala. 
On Fruits Exhibited. — J. E. M. Gilley', 
Mass.; B. K. Bliss, N. Y.; Dr. Jus. F. John¬ 
son, Va. 
Permanent Committee on Native Fruits .— 
P. J. B< rckmaus, Gu.; Charles Downing N. 
Y.; Ro. Manning, Mass.; Thomas Median, 
Pa.; W. C. Flagg, III.; P. T. Quinn, N. J.; 
John M. Allan, Va. 
MEMBERSHIP FEE. 
During the absence of the business com¬ 
mittee, alter a statement of the needs of the 
treasury by the Treasurer, and of the in¬ 
creasing demand for the Transactions of the 
Society, it was resolved to Increase the bien¬ 
nial fee from $2 to $4, and the lee for life 
membership to $20. The biennial fee se¬ 
cures to the member the volume of Trans¬ 
actions for the current year; the lifts mem¬ 
bership secures to the members such of the 
past volumes of Transactions as may be 
available and all future ones. This state¬ 
ment is made here that such as desire to be¬ 
come members may avail themselves of the 
privilege, intelligently, by sending the fee 
direct to Thomas P. James, Cambridge, 
Mass. 
The Business Committee reported and the 
report was adopted. 
HOSPITALITIES TENDERED. 
A communication was received from W. 
B. Isaacs, Esq., Chairman of the Reception 
Committee, proffering an address of wel¬ 
come from the Mayor, to be delivered in the 
hall of the House of Delegates at twelve and 
a-half o’clock P. M. 
On behalf of the City Council and the 
Committee of Reception Mr. Isaacs also 
extended to the society an invitation to par¬ 
ticipate in an excursion down the James 
River on the steamer Palisade this afternoon 
at four and a half o’clock. The invitations 
were unanimously accepted and the society 
adjourned to meet nl twelve and proceed in 
a body to the hall of the House of Delegates 
in accordance with the above invitation. At 
twelve o’clock, accordingly, full one hundred 
and fifty members marched through the city 
to the Capitol. The hall of the House of 
Delegates was filled with citizens and dele¬ 
gates. The Mayor, Hon. A. M. Kelley, 
stood awaiting his guests. The President 
of the Virginia Hurt, and Pom. Soc. intro¬ 
duced President Wilder to Mayor Kelley 
whose most eloquent and happy 
ADDRESS OF WELCOME 
We cannot forbear giving, notwithstand¬ 
ing our limited space, because we believe it 
will he patriotic to thus illustrate the true 
spirit of fraternity and good fellowship which 
should belong to this cm in our National 
history. Mayor Kelley said: 
Mr. President and Gentlemen :—It is a 
pleasant service to he charged with extend - 
ing you, as I am happy to tin, a very cordial 
welcome to ourcjfv o T i behalf of the authori¬ 
ties and people of Richmond, and I embrace 
the occasion also to congratulate my follow¬ 
ed,izens on the presence among them of so 
large and intelligent a body of gentlemen 
from all parts of our common country, en¬ 
gaged in a duty so beneficent that their 
deliberations will provoke hostile criticism 
in no quarter. 
The union of science with labor is among 
the most characteristic peculiarities of our 
age. The time was when philosophy march 
ed along the highways of the earth wrapped 
in a lordly pride which disdained all associ¬ 
ation with labor, and if it deigned to cast a 
look across the hedge that divided it from 
the field and the gulden, it was to vent it* 
scorn on the dusty hand and less intelligent 
brain there engaged. From ibis two great 
evils resulted. Firstagriculture and every 
other form of fruitful labor lost the impor¬ 
tant. aid of philosophy, and, secondly, phil¬ 
osophy itself lost the powerful stimulus 
which profit lends to every development of 
human effort. 
Almost within our memories all this has 
b en changed; the white hand has clasped 
the brown, the teeming brain has grasped 
the plow, the pruning-hook and the sickle, 
and those great agencies for the betterment 
of our race whom God hath joined are no 
longer by man to be sundered. And with 
what splendid results on every handl Sure¬ 
ly if he may be claimed to be a benefactor 
of ilis race who makes two blades of grass 
grow where only one grew before, your 
praise should be a thousand-fold greater who 
huve taken the bitter fruit of a thorny tree 
in the wil ls of Eastern Europe, unfitted for 
food for man or beast, and therefrom have 
developed the most delicious fruit of our day 
in more than five hundred varieties. [Ap¬ 
plause.] And lastly, gentlemen, 1 welcome 
you with peculiar pleasure, as this is your 
first assembling in a Southern city. Let me 
indulge the hope that you have not only 
brought hither your persons aud the superb 
results of your skill, but that you have come 
among us bringing your hearts likewise. 
[Great applause.] 
When the late unhappy strife was ended, 
the first act of reconstruction was passed by 
nature. Our brother blood was still boiling 
in hostile veins; the clenched hand was si ill 
unrelaxed, and the passions of war were still 
l ife when from a thousand skies and hill¬ 
sides and athwart a thousand plains came 
the generous sun-light, the gentle rain and 
the tempering winds, filling up the gaping 
rifle-pits, battering down the sharp esearpe- 
menfis of frowning forts, blotting out with 
waving grain the fierce scar of shot and 
shell, crowning battlements with fragrant 
(lowers, and weaving a beautiful carpel of 
green over the scenes ami sites of war’s 
worst devastat ions. [Applause.] May it. lie 
your happy fortune and high privilege, gen¬ 
tlemen, you who labor with nature in so 
many pleasant und profitable fields, to lend 
her a helping hand and a willing heart in 
this, the noblest field of all! [Loud aud con¬ 
tinued applause.] 
president wilder’s response. 
President Wilder responded to the May¬ 
or as follows: 
Mu. Mayor:— lu behalf of the. Ameri¬ 
can Potnological Society, and in my own 
behalf, I tender to you my grateful acknowl¬ 
edgements for your gracious welcome and 
most eloquent words in which you have ad¬ 
dressed us. 1 am happy to be here—we are 
happy to lie here—in the capital of the old 
Dominion, a Slate so distinguished for the 
production of illustrious men—of Washing¬ 
ton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Harrison 
ami Tyler—all of whom have filled the 
highest station in the gift of the people; 
John Marshall, Patrick Henry and Henry 
Clay, names that will ever constitute a 
galaxy of talent to fill the brightest page in 
the annals of American history. We come 
from different and widelv-diataiit. sections of 
our country. I come from the cold und 
sterile soil of New England, where we have 
not the luxuriant soil of the West, nor the 
warm, genial, sunny clime of the Smith. 
But, sir, we have hearts as warm as yours; 
and although granite aud ice enter largely 
into our exports, they are no evidence of 
Hie lull'd ness of our hearts or the coldness 
of our affections. I assure you, sir, we are 
most happy to he here to meet our Southern 
brethren on Southern soil, to concert meas¬ 
ures for the promotion of the object of our 
society — the extension of fruit culture 
throughout the length aud breadth of out 
land. With the natural advantages which 
the South possesses, and especially your own 
Virginia, upon which the north depends so 
largely lor early fruits, the time is not far 
distant when fruit culture will constitute a 
source of revenue scarcely second to any 
product of the soil. Our society is now in 
session, our time is very precious, and with 
l lie hope that, you and your hoard will honor 
us with your presence at our meetings, I bog 
you will allow us to retire. 
President Wilder was frequently ap¬ 
plauded, and at the close of it is speech, as 
lie extended his hand to the Mayor, there 
was a call for “ Three cheers for Massachu¬ 
setts and Virginia slinking hands,” which 
were given with great enthusiasm. 
Afternoon Session. 
At 8 o’clock the Society met, and Presi¬ 
dent Wilder delivered the Annual Address 
(which we printed last week). At 4 P. M. 
the Society adjourned to meet on the steam¬ 
er Palisade, Captain Nelson. A pleasant 
ride down the James River to the historic 
Dutch Gap and return closes the record of 
the first da} r . 
The (Second Day, 
Thursday, Sept. 7. 
The Convention met at 9 A. M. The 
Committee on Nominations reported the 
following named gentlemen for 
OFFICEH8 OF THE SOCIETY 
for the ensuing t wo years, which report was 
unanimously adopted: 
President.— Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, 
Massachusetts. 
Vice-Presidents. —C. C. Langdon, Ala.; S. 
J. Matthews, Ark.; Warren Foote, Arizona ; 
J. S. Curtis, Cal.; N. C. Meeker, Col.; E. 
Trowbridge, Conn.; Edward Tatnall, Del; 
Wm. Saunders, District of Columbia; Lu¬ 
cius.I. Hardee, Fla.; Wm. Schley, Gu.; Ida¬ 
ho,-; Arthur Bryant, Sr., III.; I. D. G. 
Nelson, Ind.; Indian Territory,—— ; Jas. 
Smith, Iowa; J. A Stayman, Kan.; J. 8. 
Downer, Kv.; R H. Day, La.; S. L. Good- 
ale, Me.; \V. D. Brackinridge, Md.; 0. M. 
Hovey, Mass.; Samuel Jackson, Mich.; D. 
A. Robertson, Minn.; W. B. Wilkes, Miss.; 
C. W. Spaulding, Mo.; Nicholas Waugh, 
Montana; It. W. Furnas, Nebraska; -, 
Nevada; -, New Brunswick; Charles 
Downing, N. Y.; Fred. Smyth, N. H ; Win. 
Parry, N. .1.; Df. Ruysclier, Netv Mexico; 
Walter L. Steele, N. C.; R. G. Ilalylmiton, 
Nova Scotia; Geo. W. Campbell, O.; Cims. 
Arnold, Ontario; Robert Btlisl, Sr., Pa.; 
Hugh Allen, Quebec; Silas Moore,R, I.; A. 
P. Wylie, 8. C.; Wm. Heaver, Tenn.; N. G. 
Mills, Texas; J. E. Johnson, Utah ; G. F. 
B. Leighton, Va.; D. Strother, W. Va.; J. C. 
Plnmb, Wis.; Judge Carter, Wyoming; 
Richard Bradley, Vt. (Blanks will he filled 
hereafter.) 
Treasurer. —Thos. P. James, Cambridge, 
3TclSS 
Secretary. —F. It. Elliott, Ohio. 
Executive Committee. —J. E. Mitchell, Pa.; 
Geo. Thurbcr, N. Y.; J. F. C. Hyde, Mass.; 
R. W. Furuaas, Neb.; P. J. Berckmaus, Ga. 
THE TREASURER’S REPORT 
showed a balance in the Treasury of $124.16. 
The President announced the following 
STANDING COMMITTEES. 
General Fruit Committee —P. Barry, N. 
Y.; R. It. Hunley, Ala.; Dr. Richard Thurs¬ 
ton, Ark ; Dr. Btrentzel, Cal; T. S. Gold, 
Conn.; lot I ward Talnall, Sr., Del; John Saul, 
Dist. of Columbia; M. S, Littlefield, Fla.; P. 
J. Berckmaus, Ga.; 0. B. Galusha, III; Dr. 
Allen Furnas, llld.; Mark Miller, Iowa; W. 
M. Howsley, Kail.; Z. It Muggins, Ky.; S. 
L. Goodulc, Me.; Robert Manning, Mass.; A. 
T. Lindernian, Mich.; P. A. Jewell, Minn.; 
William Muir, Mo.; J II Masters, Neb.; 
George W.Ellwanger, N. Y.; John Cupp, N. 
11,; A. S. Fuller, N. J.; Joshua Lindslev, 
N. C.; Robert W. Starr, Nova Scotia; Dr. 
John A. Warder, Ohio; D W. Beadle, 
St. Catherines, Ontario; J. S. Houghton, 
Philadelphia; J. P. Childs, It. I.; D. II. 
Jacques, S. C.; Fred. II. French, Tenn.; A. 
S. Lipscomb, Texas; Bartlett Bryant, Vt.; 
Franklin Davis, Va.; O. S. Willey, Wis. 
Foreign Fruits .—Geo, Ellwanger, N. Y.; 
C. M. Hove)', Mass.; Parker Earle, III; Dr. 
Joint A. Warder, O.; Edwin Iluyt, Conn.; 
J. E. Mitchell, Penn.; R. It. Hlmley, Ala. 
Synonyms and Ltyected Fruits .—John J. 
Thomas, N. Y.; John A. Warder, O.; W. C. 
Flagg, III; Robert Manning, Mass.; J. S. 
Downer, Ky.: W. C. Barry, N. Y. 
Revision of Catalogue- —f*. Barry, N. Y.; F. 
It Elliott, O.; Chits. Downing, N. Y.; W. C. 
Flagg, 111; Robert Manning, Muss.; George 
Husmunn, Me.; P. J. Berckmaus, Ga. 
place of meeting in 1873. 
President Wilder expressed llie desire 
ami extended to the Society a most cordial 
invitation to meet him in Boston in 1873 
and celebrate the Quarter-Centennial year 
in the history of the Society. It was unani¬ 
mously resolved so to do. 
DISCUSSION ON APPLES. 
One object of holding this session of the 
Society in Virginia was to obtain more 
specific information concerning Southern 
fruits, wjth a view to perfecting the Society’s 
catalogue. Hence it was determined to only 
discuss the fruits respectively best known in 
the South ns adapted to general cultivation. 
In the Society’s catalogue one star (*) oppo¬ 
site the name of a State indicates that the 
fruit named is recommended for that Stale, 
and two stars (**) indicate that the variety 
is recommended as being of great value or 
superiority in that locality. With a view to 
doing the largest amount of work in a given 
time, members from the different Slates re¬ 
spectively named the number of stars they 
would give the respective fruits, avoiding 
comments except where deemed necessary, 
In our reports of tlie discussion, therefore, 
we siiall follow it literally so far as practica¬ 
ble. The apple 
Bed Astrachan was marked with ** for 
Georgia, Virginia, Florida, South Carolina, 
District of Columbia, Alabama, Tennessee 
and Kentucky. Fla on (Alton, Ill.,) said 
it was unproductive there, lias a thin skin, 
is liable to crack and to attacks of curculio, 
but would not mark it out of the list while 
Earle (same State) would not. Dr. Howsley 
(Kansas) knew it to be a fine apple in Ken¬ 
tucky, and a success; but in Kansas it is 
late coining into bearing; yet by top-graft¬ 
ing on stocks adapted to the soil the objec¬ 
tion is removed. Wier (Lacon, III.,)says 
with him it hears young, healthy tree, but 
not productive nor profitable. Miller 
(Iowa)—Totally worthless in Central Iowa; 
discarded all over the State; never saw a 
ripe one. Jewell (Minn.)—Tree hardy 
and move productive on timber than prairie 
lands.- Weir (III.)—Trees on prairie soil 
have not borne; tree hardy and grows well; 
hope that it will succeed as it grows older. 
Paul (Mass.)—Grows well in Massachusetts 
ami Eastern New York; hardy when young 
and a great hearer on all soils and in all 
localities. Lindeuman (Mich.)—On the 
sandy soils of Western Michigan it produces 
well and is a fair fruit; on the clay loams 
of the central and Eastern portions of the 
Stale it is not so productive, and scabs and 
cracks. Masters (Neb.)—Healthy and 
hardy tree but not productive on the rich 
prairie soils; hut on the thin nest lands and 
on the bluffs, in a few orchards have seen it 
producing well; should he cultivated only 
on thin and sandy soils ; on prairie soils its 
foliage turns yellow aud then white; would 
not recommend it for general cultivation in 
Nebraska. 
American Summer Pearmain was marked 
with a * each for Georgia, Alabama, Ken¬ 
tucky, Nebraska, South Carolina, Iowa and 
Minnesota, ami ** for Virginia, District of 
Columbia, Kansas and Maryland. 
Early Harvest—B e rck mans would give 
litis apple * for generafcultivation in Geor¬ 
gia (not a valuable market) fruit and ** for 
cultivation for family use. It received ** 
for Alabama, District of Columbia, Ken¬ 
tucky and Tennessee, and one * for South 
Carolina, Kansas, Nebraska, (Col. Hardee 
of Fla., said “give it an 0 for our State,”) 
Illinois and Virginia. 
Bed Margaret or Striped June of the South 
but declared to lie Bed June , received ** for 
Georgia, South Carolina and Iowa. Mas¬ 
ters (Neb ), worthless in Nebraska. 
Summer Queen received ** for Georgia, 
District of Columbia, Maryland, Northern 
Virginia and Alabama, and * for Southeast¬ 
ern Virginia. 
Horse Apple received ** for Georgia, and, 
if synonymous with “ Haas,” the same for 
Minnesota, and, if “Hoss” the same for 
Soul hern Illinois. There was a confusion 
of names here. 
Carolina Bed June received ** for Geor¬ 
gia, Virginia, Maryland, Kansas, Kentucky, 
South Carolina, Nebraska, and * for Iowa. 
Flago (111.)—It should lie highly cultivated 
with us. Weir (III.)—If thoroughly culti¬ 
vated, with trees low headed and not allowed 
to overbear it is valuable. 
Summer Sweet Bough received ** for Vir¬ 
ginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, Ken¬ 
tucky and Connecticut, and * for Georgia, 
Kentucky, Alabama, Michigan and Massa¬ 
chusetts. Illinois aud Nebraska refused to 
star it. 
Autumn Sweet Bough received ** for 
Georgia and Kentucky. 
White Winter Pearmain received ** for 
Georgia, Kentucky, Alabama, South Caro¬ 
lina and (from Dr. Howsley, Kansas.) while 
Dr. Stozman demaned and would give it. 
but one for Kansas. Iowa gave it a * 
Carter's Bloom received ** for Georgia. 
Carolina Greening received ** for Georgia, 
South Carolinia, Kentucky and * for Mary¬ 
land and District of Columbia. 
Buckingham received ** for Middle Geor¬ 
gia, South Carolina and Virginia ; and * for 
Maryland and District of Columbia. Flagg 
(Illinois) said the Salem, which he had fruit¬ 
ed two or three years, is identical with this 
apple. 
Taunton received ** for Middle Georgia, 
Kentucky and Alabama. 
Ben Davis received ** for Georgia, Ken- 
tuck}', Nebraska and Kansas ; and for mar¬ 
ket purposes alone ** for Illinois and Iowa. 
It also received * for Alabama, District of 
Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. Michi¬ 
gan refused to give it any. 
Cannon Pearmain received ** for Virginia, 
District of Columbia, Maryland and Ken¬ 
tucky and a * for Kansas. Di Howsley 
(Kansas) sLating that it was introduced into 
Kentucky from Virginia in 1795 by Edward 
Darnaby. Saul (D. C.,) said it orgitinted 
in Loudon Co., Va., while Williams (Va.,) 
claimed it orginated in Bradford Co., which 
adjoins Loudon. 
Holly received * for Kansas and Kentucky, 
Middle Georgia refusing to give it one. 
Junaluskee received ** for Alabam and * 
for Georgia and Kentucky. 
Many mi (or Carter) received ** for Ken¬ 
tucky, Alabama and Kansas, Howsley 
(Kun.) remarking that it is one of the best 
apples grown in Kansas. It received * for 
Virginia. 
Nickajack received ** for Virginia, Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia, Maryland and Alabama; 
* for Middle Georgia, Kentucky and Illinois, 
one Illinois member remarking that he 
thought it merited about * and a half. 
Pennsylvania aud Kansas refused give 
it any. 
Pryor's Bed received ior Middle Geor¬ 
gia, District of Columbia, Maryland, North 
Virginia and Southern Illinois, and * for 
South Carolina and Iowa. Allan (Va.)— 
It is useless as a market apple in East Vir¬ 
ginia; is unproductive, and the tree is not 
healthy ; it should only be recommended on 
account of its quality; grown on strong 
soils in high localities, it is a useful apple 
for domestic use, hut not profitable. Hows¬ 
ley (Kan.)—Top graft it, apd it is excellent 
in Kentucky. Flagg (III.)—In some parts 
of Kentucky it lias proved unhealthy; in 
South Illinois it is healthy and productive. 
Howsley (Kan.)—It must be grafted above 
ground, and it will prove profitable. Wil¬ 
liams (Va.)—In Northern Virginia it is en¬ 
titled to one *. Chamberlain (Va.)—In 
the extreme northern part of Virginia it is 
a valuable apple, lienee 1 gave it **. Lang¬ 
don (Ala.)—It does not succeed in South 
Alabama. Miller (Iowa.)—It is one of 
the best apples we grow; bears late but 
well when once in hearing. 
Gilpin received ** for Virginia and South 
Carolina, and * for Middle Georgia, District 
of Columbia, Kentucky, Nebraska, Illinois 
and Minnesota. King (D. C.)—In Mary¬ 
land it is excellent on rich soil. 
Shockley. —** for Georgia, Iowa, Mary¬ 
land, Alabama and South Carolina; * for 
Illinois. Behokmans (Ga.)snys it is the best 
winter apple for Middle. Georgia; and Flagg 
(Ill.) says it is promising in Southern Illi¬ 
nois; tree strong and vigorous. Elliott 
(Ohio)—Popular throughout the South. 
Stevenson's Winter received ** for Georgia 
and Alabama. 
Tates received ** for Middle Georgia, 
Berckmans saying that it resembled Hall 
but is superior to it. 
Large Striped Winter Pearmain received 
** for Georgia aud * for Kentucky and 
Kansas. 
White Winter Pearmain received ** for 
South Carolina, Georgia, Kansas, Iowa, and 
for Nebraska, if topworked, otherwise *; it 
also received * for Virginia and Illinois. 
Mason's Stranger , Allan (Va.) said, is for 
Eastern and Southern Virginia one of the 
best winter apples we have. 
Pilot, Allan (Va ) says originated in Nel¬ 
son Co., Va., and is one of the best apples 
for the Piedmont section of Virginia. 
Winesap received ** for Virginia, District 
of Columbia, Maryland, Kansas, Kentucky, 
Iowa and Nebraska, and * for New Jersey, 
South I linois aud Michigan. 
Bawles Janet received ** for Virginia, 
District of Columbia, Maryland, Kansas, 
Kentucky, Nebraska, Iowa and Southern 
Illinois, and * for Northern Illinois. 
Maiden's Blush received ** for Virginia, 
Kansas, New Jersey, Illinois, Iowa, Dist. 
Columbia and Pennsylvania, and * (or 
Massachusetts, Nebraska, Maryland and 
Kentucky, Florida refusing to give it any. 
FaUawater received ** for Michigan, Vir¬ 
ginia, Pennsylvania and Iowa. 
Yellow Newtown Pippin (Albemarle Pip¬ 
pin in Va.) received ** for the Piedmont re¬ 
gion of Virginia and for Kansas. 
York Imperial received ** for Virginia and 
Pennsylvania, and * for Dist. of Columbia 
and Maryland. 
Winter Sweet Paradise received ** for 
Virginia and Kansas. 
Loudon’s Pippin received ** for Virginia 
Dist. of Columbia and Maryland. Chamber¬ 
lin (Va.) says the original tree was produced 
on the farm of Levi White, Loudon Co., 
Va., and is still a vigorous bearer; lias re¬ 
cently produced in one.season eighty bushels 
of marketable apples. It is a thrifty grow¬ 
ing tree, spreads very much ; fruit large, 
delicious in flavor and promises to he one 
of the leading varieties of winter apples in 
the South. 
The Convention took a recess. 
-♦_*_*- 
P0M0L0GI0AL GOSSIP, 
A Hush Strawberry. 
The St Paul Press and the Duluth Min- 
nesotirtii are discussing the question of the 
existence in Pembina of a bush al raw berry. 
The editor of the Press asserts Unit there is 
such a variety of 1 he strawberry in that re¬ 
gion, llml’it is not, as the Minnesolinn claims, 
really a raspberry, but a genuine strawberry, 
lie says: 
“ The berry ill question has not only the 
full flavor and form, hut the stalk of the 
strawberry, ami luis nothing whatever of the 
raspberry about it. It is a misnomer to de¬ 
fer so far to popular parlance as to call it a 
bush strawberry, for it does not grow on a 
bush, hut on un upright Blalk ; the only dif¬ 
ference, so far as we can recollect, between 
the stalk and the creeping vine, being that 
the former is upright and terminates in a 
group ol stems supporting u cluster of ta r¬ 
ries. The stalk is In all respects a straw, 
like that of clover or the vine, of the ordinary 
strawberry, and. has no resemblance what¬ 
ever to the woody fiber and bark of the stalk 
of the raspberry bush. 
Why not send a plant to the editor of the 
Gardener’s Monthly, who is well posted 
on the Strawberry questi-m that lie can, (at 
least lie says he can,) discover a difference 
between the Maximllfian, Mexican Ever¬ 
bearing and the old monthly Red Alpine? 
We certainly want to sec this question settled 
—Strawberry or Raspberry, which is it ? 
Tlie President Wilder Strawberry at 
IVlaceituu. N. V. 
1 have had this variety in cultivation 
two seasons. The first was a very trying 
one on account of the extreme hot weather 
and protracted drouth ; hut the Wilder pass¬ 
ed through if successfully ; its foliage not 
sustaining the least injury, Inti proving as 
healthy and vigorous as could he desired. 
It. withstood the winter equally well, find 
tliis season bore nn abundant crop of fruit. 
The cultivation it received was not of a 
character to best develop its fruiting quali¬ 
ties, since the multiplication of plants lor sale 
was the main object sought ; yet we thought, 
it bore nearly as large a crop as the Wilson. 
It ripens with Jucunda, ami like that va¬ 
riety maintains the large size ol its hemes 
to the last picking. At the summer meet¬ 
ing of the Horticultural Society of Western 
New York at Rochester, two dishes of the 
Wilder were exhibited, one by Ellwanger 
& Barry, probably picked the same morn* 
ing, and one by myself picked two days 
before. The latter dish was as perfect m 
color and form as the first. 1 think it wi 
prove u profitable market berry on account 
of its productiveness, firmness, large size 
and attractive color; while in quality i 
ranks as best.— C. L. Van Dusen. 
