The winter meeting of this Society was held at Rochester. As usual there was a fall attendance from a large portion of the counties embraced by the Society, from Syracuse to Buffalo.

There were several fine and select collections of fruit, among them 40 varieties of pear from Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester, and there were other collections of apples and pears from R. B. Warren, of Genesee Co., John B. Baton, of Buffalo, H. E. Hooker & Co., of Rochester, and W. P. Townsend, of Lockport. S. G. Crane presented a dish of Josephine de Malines pear, in perfect condition and of exquisite flavor. H. Spencer, of Yates County, exhibited fine specimens of the Tompkins County King apple; and J. M. Whitney, of Rochester, a basket of very large and splendid Jonathan apples.

The following is a condensed account of the discussions:

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(Report concluded frump. 552).

C. Maxwell, of Ontario County, spoke of his own cultivation being upon a rather heavy soil, and he had found the trees to grow well, and so does the fruit. Agreed with Mr. Barry; and did not think the same opinions could be better expressed than had been done by Mr. Barry.

F. W. Lay, of Monroe County, has an orchard of three-year-old trees, which he planted where the long rows of trees ran through mixed soils, and much varied in running from one soil to another. Desired to add Belle Lucrative to the sorts valuable on quince. Bartlett succeed well wherever well cultivated. Flemish Beauty also.

Mr. Moody spoke of the comparative liability of standards to suffer from blight; but be thought them not so liable to blight upon light soils. Upon my place in Niagara County, have never seen a standard tree with fire-blight, nor have I ever had a cracked Vergouleuse. As to Mr. Barry's soil, I would not call that a very light soil; it is a mixture, a part of which sticks to the boots of those walking through it after a heavy rain: should call it a clayey loam. My standard Vergouleuse, which have been so successful on my loose, porous soil, are now over ten years old. and have been bearing fine crops for five or six years. In our county it cracks badly upon a heavy soil with hard and retentive subsoil, not underdrained.

Mr. Langworthy thought, that in the cultivation of pears for profit it is desirable for the varieties to have a succession of ripening periods, which should not interfere with each other, nor with peaches. They would then be profitable; and, not being in competition with each other, nor with other fruits, would bring good prices in the market On my soil, before described, Vergouleuse does not either crack its fruit or blight the trees; have not one case of tree blight Geo. Ellwanger, of Monroe County, says that the Vergouleuse fruit has never been as large in our grounds as this year, both upon standard trees and on dwarf trees. The fruit, however, is larger upon standards trained as pyramids than on dwarfs. Considers it more liable to crack upon a very light soil, than where they have a heavy, clayey subsoil.

Joseph Harris, Esq , had, in a late visit to Wayne County, seen, at Newark, an orchard of ten thousand dwarf pear-trees and two thousand standards. It stood upon a side hill, sandy at top with clay subsoil; lower down the soils were more mixed, and became a heavy loam. Vergouleuse there cracked badly; worse upon the sandy than upon the heavier soil. The dwarf trees were double-worked, and Louise Bonne is fine, Bartlett very fine, and Flemish Beauty splendid The farmer, seeing that there were considerable spaces between the trees, which were not crowded with vegetation, tried the experiment of growing a crop of rye in the orchard; and although he plowed it under as a green crop, it seemed to make the Vergouleuse worse, and to add one more to the many proofs that we can not grow two crops on the same ground, and must not cultivate any other crop in our orchards if we want the very best fruit.