This society united exhibitions and premiums with intellectual improvement, and the autumn meeting held at the residence and grounds of Hon. Frank M. Green, was a great success. The ladies took most of the floral premiums. Mesdames Green, B. Norris, Thomas Rhodes and G. Denning being the chief successful exhibitors. The Mademoiselles, however, successfully contested with them in many respects, and Miss A. E. Fenn and Miss Hoover had some of the awards. In the discussion on fruits, it seemed that most of the growers of apples could find no purchasers, though there is a good demand for them in all the market centres. The trouble evidently is, that fruit marketing is not studied as fruit growing is. In grapes, there is a vineyard of 3,000 acres at Euclid; on the ground, Concord brings 2 cents a pound, Delaware 5, and Pocklington and Niagara 7. Early Victor has not been found as profitable as Worden. The sparrow was reported as a serious pest to the grain and fruit grower in that section. Mrs. Crawford read a paper on the education of children, in connection with the aid we may derive from flowers in the effort, and Mr. L. B. Pierce drew a contrast between the literature of Horticulture and that of Agriculture. He thought the Horticultural magazines were fast becoming mere trade sheets, while the Agricultural papers usually kept their columns measurably free from advertising dodges.

A new local variety of potato called the Summitt, was extolled for size and beautiful form.