From the record sent us, the meeting of this young State Society, held early in January, was numerously attended and the show of fruits quite large, numbering over two hundred plates of apples alone, besides grapes, pears, etc. We rejoice at this out-coming, as it were, of the knowledge and love of fruit-growing which that young State possesses. But we must beg to dissent from one line which the reporter or writer of the proceedings has incorporated, viz., "Eastern experience is of little avail to us".

If the writer thereof lives a few years, and makes fruit-growing his study, he will find that he was very far from the truth when he so wrote. It is the experience of those who have gone before us which must guide us in making progress. Without such reference and regard thereto we should only be repeating the errors that have been committed. Iowa is not so much a distinct climate or State, either in soil or temperature, that she can afford to throw aside the experience gained by the long and earnest labor of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, and New England. And while we accord her cultivators equal intelligence, we advise them to consult the records of horticulturists in other States.

We have no doubt of the success of fruit-growing in Iowa, but at the same time desire to say to those engaging in it, do not count on success without very considerable labor and disappointment. We are glad to see the Society urge the extensive planting of trees, both fruit and ornamental. We have long considered this one of the leading items which should be impressed upon the minds of all fruitgrowers, and especially of those in our new Western States.

The hardihood of varieties, we also notice, was slightly discussed, and the Early Harvest, heretofore considered tender, put down as "equally hardy with the Red June." We look for a radical change ere many years in all the foregone statements of such and such a variety becoming diseased, tender, bark bursting, etc., etc.