1849 
THE CULTIVATOR 
85 
Ohio Fruit Convention. 
The unparalelled increase in the dissemination of 
fruits through all parts of our widely expanded coun¬ 
try, is giving a new feature to pomological investi¬ 
gation. Where formerly half a dozen neighbors could 
hardly be brought together, for the sole purpose of 
discussing fruits, we now have large organized conven¬ 
tions, not only from all parts of a large state, but from 
half the states themselves in the Union. 
The fruit growers of Ohio, held in 1847, the first 
convention of the kind in the country, the proceedings 
of which-were published at length in pamphlet form. 
With untiring enterprise, they have now given to the 
public, in a closely printed pamphlet of 64 pages, a full 
account of the second convention, held last autumn at 
Columbus. 
The convention consisted of 25 delegates—a more 
convenient number for comparing fruits by cutting up 
and eating, than the 70 at Buffalo, or the 250 at New- 
York. A. H. Ernst, of Cincinnati, presided, and M. 
B. Batehan and F. R. Elliott served as secretaries, 
—by the latter of whom, the present able report was 
chiefly drawn. A valuable feature consists in the va¬ 
rious recorded opinions from the different delegates gi¬ 
ven in relation to each fruit. This mode of communi¬ 
cating information cannot fail in any case to be useful, 
and it is commended to the attention of future conven¬ 
tions elsewhere. 
During the two days, more than eighty varieties of 
apples were examined and discussed, including mostly 
old or known sorts, good and bad, with some new seed¬ 
lings. Of the latter, several outline figures are given. 
Besides the record of the proceedings, there is an 
elaborate and valuable paper from F. R. Elliott, on 
the fruits already proved in northern Ohio; a very in¬ 
teresting communication from C. Springer, on the 
fruits of central Ohio, and the changes wrought upon 
many well known varieties by the soil and climate of 
that region; and an excellent paper by Prof. Kirt- 
land, on the use of special manures for fruit trees, 
with a statement of some very successful experiments 
’with their use. 
The following list of apples, was compiled by the 
secretaries from the reports of the Convention for the 
two years it has been held, from the characters given 
by the members; it cannot fail to prove valuable to 
Ohio fruit raisers, and interesting to cultivators else¬ 
where, as showing the changes wrought by different lo¬ 
calities in some of the best standard varieties:— 
I. First rate, and deserving further attention. 
Early Harvest, 
Summer Sweet—in southern O., 
White Juneating—on account 
of ea.rly ripening. 
Large Yellow Bough, 
Summer Rose, 
Early Strawberry, 
Red Astrachan-—only for mar¬ 
ket culture, 
Summer Queen, 
Golden Sweeting, 
American Summer Pearmain, 
Lowell, 
Jersey Sweeting—not known in 
southern Ohio, 
Porter. 
Fall Pippin—by majority—some 
dissenting, 
Cooper, 
Fall Wine, 
Rambo, 
Westfield Seeknofurther, 
Belmont or Gate—except in 
some sections of south Ohio, 
Yellow Bellefleur, 
Esopus Spitzenberg, 
Am. Golden Russett, 
Roxbury Russet, 
Willow Twig—only as a keep¬ 
er, 
Green & Yellow Newtown Pip¬ 
pins, 
Swaar, 
American Pippin—only as a 
keeper. 
II. Second rate —or 
Genetting, 
Early Chandler, 
Gault’s Belleflower, 
Summer Cheese, 
York Russet, 
Maiden’s Blush, 
20 ounce apple, 
R. I. Greening—except for some 
few sections and until experi¬ 
ments can be tried in manu¬ 
ring it with ashes, &c. 
good for cooking purposes. 
Sweet Pippin, 
Gloria Mundi. 
Gilpin or Romanite, 
Baldwin—on account of dry 
rot, 
Michael Henry Pippin, 
Cracking apple, 
Kaighn’s Spitzenberg, 
Black Apple, 
Pumpkin Sweeting, 
Limber Twig. 
III. Third rate —or worthless. . 
Augustine, 
Slug Sweeting, 
Gloucester White, 
Prolific Beauty, 
Col vert, or Pound Pippin, 
Golden Gage, 
Edgington, 
Black Gilliflower, 
Alexander, 
Cheeseboro Russet. 
IV. No DECIDED OPINION EXPRESSED. 
Tart Bough, 
George apple, 
Williams’ favorite—not suffi¬ 
ciently known, 
Spice Sweet, 
Drap D’Or, 
Trenton’s Early, 
Catline, 
Gravenstein — not generally 
known. 
Dyer, 
Wonderlich Spice, 
Beauty of Kent, 
Orndorf, 
Late Strawberry, 
Sweet Belleflower, 
Kiler’s Maryland Red, 
Gabriel, 
Hicke’s winter sweet, Spring¬ 
er’s Seedling, and other new 
seedlings, 
White Pippin, 
Federal, 
Seeknofurther of Coxe, 
Polly Bright, 
Newark Pippin, 
Roman Stem, 
Pomme de Niege, 
Winter Cheese, 
Winter Pearmain, 
Fall Harvey, 
Western Spy, 
Flushing Spitzenberg, 
Danvers Winter Sweet, 
Carolina Red Streak, 
Cable’s Gilliflower, 
Peck’s Pleasant, 
Brabant Bellefleur, 
Ribston Pippin, 
Ohio Nonpareil, 
Cumberland Spice, 
Red Calville, 
Laquier, 
Scarlet Pearmain, 
Court of Wyck, 
Scollop Gilliflower. 
The Perfect Rose. 
The astonishing improvement effected in the Rose 
by skilful and scientific cultivation cannot be appreciated 
but by those who have seen the finest specimens. The 
neat and delicate forms which some of the best assume, 
is in striking contrast with the old, loose, irregular, se¬ 
mi-double varieties. As a specimen of “a perfect 
36—THE PERFECT ROSE. . 
rose,” in form, we have copied the above figure from 
The Horticulturist , for although it has not been very 
closely approached in its accurate circular form, yet we 
not unfrequently find specimens of some of the best va¬ 
rieties, and particularly of some of the hybrid China 
roses, quite nearly imitating it in the beautiful and re¬ 
gular imbrication of its petals. 
