Pomological Society

At the monthly meelinsr oí the society, President 15 ildwin exhibited a very large specimen ot the Le Conté pear. The foliage was large and bright, showlng a very healthy wood, not in the least Injured by tlio lato frosts. If this pear ripens in our climate it will stay like the Kleffer, whkA it resembles, surpassinjr the latter In size. Both are Mongollan origin. The undcrsigned exhibited Sheldon, Secel, Louisc Bonne, Superflue, Mount Vernon, Duchesse, D'Anjon, Bosc, Kiefter and Nel is pears. The Ann Arbor Preserve and Pickling Company exhibited Peach Jelly in neat blue and white glass jars. All who tasted it pronounced It very good. lts positive peach cbaracter was marked lu comparison with the cheap jellies that contaln everytbing but the fruit, Indicated on the labels. This company could not get enough peaches here and imported a car load f rom St. Louis, Mo., at the rato of $1.35 per bualiel. Miss Sarah Fletchur supernitended the canning and jellying She is so well-known in this coniinunity that her name is a guarantee for iirst clnss work, and scrupulous neatness in puttlnjr up fruit. The company put up quite an amount of fruit from this vieinity. It ia very strange that tbeir exhibit at the County Fair, which was the largest passed unnoiiced by the juciges and superhitundents of that departmeDt. The fruit exhlbit at our last County Fair was discussed. It was a. grand euccess, but the fruit, especially grapes, became unsijthtly bjr the dust in the fruit hall. A cominittee, consisting ot E. Baur, W. F Bird and J. Ganzhorn was appointcd to recommend to the Agricultural and Hortlcultural S'Ciety a new floor for the fruit hall and general better arrungements; also a chango in the premium list on fruits. Il was asserted that some exhibitors of fruit collect their exhibits from the nelghboorhood and the same canned goods have ppeared for years. It was recomtnended that in future the superintendent of that department sbould ask exhibitors, whetner they tliemselves have grown these fruits. Mr. J. Austin Scott thought that the premiums on farm, garden and orchard produce were too small. He consldered, these departments the most important. A tirst premium of flfty cents on wheat and of one dollar on largest and best display of grapes was out of place. Mr. J. J. l'arshall moved that the original subscription list for the fruit faetory bonus be put in the hands of Mr. E. B. Pond for cnllection. The motinn was carried. Those that shipped by the fruit car are requested to pay a penny per bushel to the treasurer of thia society, wliicli liad considerable work to do to hrinir niinnt rheaner transDortatlon.