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STATE HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
who have clung tenaciously to Hovey’s Seedling and other varieties, are now 
planting largely of the Wilson, because of the popularity and profit. 
Judge Knapp moved to amend Mr. Kellogg’s motion, and substitute the 
Agriculturist in place of the Wilson. The Agriculturist he called superior 
to the Wilson in favor, more, at least quite as prolific, bears a second crop 
the same season, and has strength of plant to take care of it. He regards 
the Agriculturist as much superior to the Wilson, in point of flavor, as the 
best Delaware grape is superior to the common frost grape. 
Mr. Plumb said he had no doubt that Judge Knapp and others recommend 
the Agriculturist honestly, but we generally know too little of it to recom¬ 
mend it for general cultivation. We do know the Wilson’s Albany, and it 
hardly requires our indorsement. 
Mr. Knapp said everybody is disgusted with the Wilson. Why recommend 
it all ? it is sour and has no flavor. The Agriculturist is as hard and carries 
as well as the Wilson to the market. We shall never advance in 
the way of better fruits at this rate of progress. This Society should lead 
the people. 
Mr Lawrence said that at Janesville the past season, the Wilson had sold 
at ten cents per quart, when other varieties were selling at fifteen and 
eighteen cents’ 
President Hobbins said these varieties had been on exhibition by the local 
Horticultural Society here, and in the judgment of experieneed men the 
relative merits of these fruits were as named in their respective order; 1st, 
Agriculturalist; 2d, Russell’s Prolific; 3d, Wilson’s Albany. The Jucunda 
was devoid of flavor, hollow, and he would not have it in his garden. 
Mr. Willey could not consent to place the Agriculturist ahead of the 
Wilson. It (the Wilson) does well everywhere. More berries were obtained 
from it on the same ground than from any other strawberry. Agriculturist 
plants were hard to propagate’. He was not prepared to place the Agricul¬ 
turist at the head of the list. He regarded the Wilson a good flavored 
berry when ripe. It required a little more sugar than some others but it 
does not lack strawberry flavor. 
Mr. Lawrence did not agree with the last speaker as to the diflBculty of 
propagating the Agriculturist. From a single plant in his possession two or 
three years ago, he had supplied the whole city of Janesville with plants. 
Mr. Willey said he knew the Agriculturist to be a good fruit, but we did 
not know enough about it to recommend it for general planting for profit 
throughout the State. 
Mr. Kellogg—The Agriculturist is not enough known in this state to warr¬ 
ant us in placing it upon the list. 
The amendment putting the Agriculturist in place of Wilson’s Albany on 
the list for general cultiuation was lost, and the original motion prevailed. 
Jiaspberries .—Judge Knapp moved to recommend the cultivation of the 
Fastolf raspberry for general cultivation. By laying down the canes in win¬ 
ter he had found he could grow four times the quantity of berries that he 
