Transactions of the North western Fruit Growers' Association. Third Annual Meeting, held at Chicago, Oet 4th to 7th, 1858.

This enterprising association is prosecuting its duties with true western energy and success. We have perused their late proceedings with great pleasure, not merely for the information we have been able to gather from them, but because they indicate a great degree of intelligence, and especially a spirit of inquiry and communicativeness among cultivators that cannot fail to be of great benefit to the Western States, and aid materially in advancing pomological science in general.

Already we see enough of the fruit-growing capacity of that wonderfully fertile region to warrant the belief that fruit culture is there to become a most important pursuit. Such apples as have been sent us by the Messrs. Avert, of Burlington, and others, we have never yet seen equalled for size and beauty. The climate, to be sure, has its difficulties; but then courageous men of the west know exactly how to meet and conquer difficulties. They have been well schooled in this matter. We intended to run through the discussions, and note the more important points, but we find we can not at this time.

In addition to the regular business proceedings of the Convention, we find an address, delivered on the first evening, by J. A. Wight, Esq., editor of the Prairie Farmer, and an excellent address it is - truthful, harmonious and poetic. Mr. Wight is no less at home in recounting the pleasure and profits of horticulture than he is in discussing the topics of prairie farming. A letter was read from Prof. Kirtland, of Ohio, on the Pear, which we shall give in our next number.

A resolution was passed, calling on each member to furnish "a list of such fruits as have been tested in his neighborhood, and have proved positively good." This was a very good way to get at some practical results, and we give below these lists by twenty-one members:

"Apples for general cultivation, by L. Montague, having tested the same some twelve years: Summer Fruit - Red Astracan, Prince's Early Harvest, Benning Stripe, Early Golden Sweet, Sweet Bough. Fall Fruit - Alexander, Shaker Apple, Shaker Red Streak, Fall Pippin, Ramabo, Mother Apple, White Bellflower. Fall and Winter Fruit - Scollop Gilliflower. Winter Fruit - Westfield Seeknofurther, Baldwin, Esopus Spitzenburg, Vandervere Pippin, Oldtown Pippin, Putnam Russet, Golden Russet, Rawles' Janet, Milam, Bellmont, Royal Pippin, Talman's Sweet.

"By B. Hathaway, Little Prairie Roude, Mich.: Summer - Canada Sweet, Early Harvest, Summer Rose, Early Strawberry, Sweet Bough, Tart Bough, Golden Sweet, Carolina June, S. Rambo. Fall - Fall Pippin, Maiden's Blush, Wine Apple (of the West). Winter - Rambo, Ameri. can Golden Russet, Spitzenburg, Baldwin, Block Apple, Rox Russet, Westfield Seeknofurther, Rhode Island Greening, Swaar, Gates, and Jonathan.

"Fruits for general and extensive cultivation in St. Joseph county, Ind, by WM. H. LooMIs South Bend, Ind.:

Apples

Summer - Red Astracan, Large Sweet Bough, Early Harvest, Golden Sweeting, Summer Rose, Summer Queen, Carolina Red June. Fall - St. Lawrence, Fall Pippin, Maiden's Blush, Jersey Sweet, Fall Red Winter - Baldwin, Bellflower, yellow, Bell-flower, white, Famuese, Jonathan, Ladies' Sweet, Lady Apple (for a long-keeping, dessert fruit), Northern Spy, Yellow Newtown Pippin, Pomme Grise, Rawles' Janet (never fail), Rambo, Rhode Island Greening, Roxbury Russet, Swaar, Spitzenburg Esopus, Talman's Sweet, Vandervere.

Pears

Dearborn's Seedling, Stevens' Genesee, Madeleine, Ranssellit Stuttgard, Bloodgood, Bart-lett, Belle Leucrative, Napoleon, Duchess d'Angouleme, Flemish Beauty, Louise Bonne d'Jersey,ris.

Peaches

Early York, Early Tillotson, Coles' Early Red, Crawford's Early, Oldmjxon's tree Stone, Royal Kensington, Crawford's Late, George Fourth, Gros Mignonne, Large White Ling, Lemon Cling, Red Cheek Melocoton.

Cherries

Black Tartarian, Black Eagle, Early urple Guigne, Yellow Spanish, Napoleon Bigarrean, Belle d'Choisy, May Duke.

Plums

Coe's olden Drop, Prince's Imperial Gage, Washington, Green Gage, Bradshaw.

Grapes

Isabella, atawba, Herbemont.

Currants

White Dutch, White Grape, Cherry.

Gooseberries

Oughton's Seedling.

By Smiley Shepherd, Hennepin, ILL: Apples

Early Harvest, Carolina Red June, Summer earmain (English), Gravenstein, Fall Wine, Rambo, Pennsylvania Red Streak, or Pennsylvania and New Jersey Seeknofurther, Bellflower yellow, Pearmain, Herefordshire, Pryor's Red, Bald-in, Rawles' Janet.

Apples

By Lewis Ellsworth etc Co.: Sweet Bough, Early Harvest, American Summer Pear-ain (top grafted), Keswick Codlin, Fall Pippin, Spice Sweet, Pound Sweet, Calvert, Talman weet, R. L Greening, Pomme Grise, Rawles' Janet, Vandervere.

Apples

By C. R. Overman, Canton, l11.: Summer - Spice Sweet, Yellow June, Benoni, Early carvest, Golden Sweet, Glass Apple (Summer Rose), Hocking, Maiden's Blush, Summer Pear-tain, Sweet June, Sine Qua Non, Trenton Early, Carolina June. Fall - Fulton Strawberry, indley's Nonpareil, Autumnal Swaar, Downing's Paragon, Famuese, or Snow Apple, Fall Pippin, ravenstein, Green Sweeting, White Seeknofurther, Wine Apple, Gabriel, Rambo. Winter - ominie, English Golden Pippin, Golden Russet (B. Pippin), Limber Twig, Ladies' Sweeting [ountain Pippin (fall), Roman Stem, Roxbury Russet, Vandervere, Wagoner, White Bellflower, Thite Pippin, Winesap, Willow Twig, Yellow Bellflower, Winter Swaar, W. Winter Pearmain, aldwin, Newtown Pippin, Rawles' Janet, Fulton.

"Mr. 0. says: 'I am aware there are too many kinds in this select list; yet would not be ithout any one of them.

Apples

By B. B. Drake, Elk Grove, Cook co., Ill, more or less tested, and deemed excellent: sopus Spitzenburg, R. L Greening, American Summer Pearmain, Winesap, Rawles' Janet, Aro-atic Pippin, ripens in September. Keswick Codling, for cooking, from July 15 to October. A' weeting, supposed to be Golden Sweeting. Another Sweeting, which was had for Golden weeting; Sept. to Dec., or Jan.; very rich, sweet and juicy. BarnhilTs Summer, Yellow Bell-awer.