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(He offered about a dozen sorts, and an informal recess was taken for the 
bene6t of the tasting committee.) 
The conclusion seemed to be in favor of propagating the Delaware by 
single eyes in layers. A majority of the voices were in favor of allowing the 
Concord to stand as first on the list. 
The Delaware being called for the second place, Mr. Plumb said he had 
voted to place this first. It was a grape just as easy to grow as the Concord 
even if as a rule one did have to wa't a little longer, but when grown, one 
had a grape Avorthy the care bestowed upon it. He advised everybody to 
plant it. 
Dr. Hobbins had heard it objected that the birds eat it. That, with 
him, was a recommendation—birds had good taste. 
Mr. Lawrence thought the time was near when the Concord would be left 
off the lists. 
After considerable more discussion, and an attempt to reconsider the vote 
placing the Concord first, the Delaware was passed as second, and the Diana 
as third. 
Strawberries. —Mr. Kellogg moved that Wilson’s Albany be placed first on 
the list of strawberries for general cultivation. 
Mr. Lawrence objected to such action by the Society. There were other 
strawberries just as productive, and of much better flavor. People are be¬ 
ginning to distinguish between poor and good flavored berries, and it is time, 
he thinks, that horticultural societies made an effort to keep pace with the 
progress of the people He thought that the Agriculturist in all other re¬ 
spects as good as the Wilson’s Albany, and in point of flavor, better. 
President Hobbins agreed with Mr. Lawrence in theory. He could recom¬ 
mend the Agriculturist first, because it yields well, is of good flavor, and 
hardy. He would put Russell’s Prolific secood on the list. It, too, is hardy, 
prolific, and of superior flavor. Third, he would put Wilson’s Albany, which 
yields well, and is good for preserves, and that it is all it is good for. 
Mr. Lawrence thought the Society, if it put Wilson’s first on the list, 
would get ashamed of its action within five years, and members who voted 
for it would bo unwilling to acknowledge the fact. In Boston it was discar¬ 
ded, and scarcely known in the market. la New York, Knox’s Jucunda, 
grown in Pittsburgh, out-sells it three to one. 
Mr. Kellogg said if he got ashamed of his vote in five minutes he would 
then change it; but now it is popular, prolific, and profitable. It sustains 
much the same relation to other strawberries that the Concord grape does to 
other grapes. It grows well everywhere almost, while the Agriculturist fails 
in many localities. 
Mr. Manning, of Massachusetts, said he desired to correct the gentleman 
who said the Wilson was scarcely known in the Boston market. The Wilson 
was more grown in the vicinity of Boston than any other variety, and he be¬ 
lieved he was safe in asserting that more Wilson’s Albany strawberries are 
sold in the Boston market than of ail other varieties put together. Planters 
