This Society held its annual meeting in Rochester on the 9th and 10th of January. The attendance was large, and the proceedings of much interest The display of winter fruit is said to have been very fine. The president, Col Hodge, not being able to be present on account of illness, his address was read by Secretary Bissell. For the proceedings which follow we are indebted to the kindness of a friend, to whom we return our cordial thanks.

After reading the President's Address, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year:

President - -E. Moody, of Lockport Vice Presidents - J. J. Thomas, Union Springs; W. Brown Smith, Syracuse; Prof. W. R. Coppock, Buffalo. Secretary - C. P. Bissell, Rochester. Treasurer - W.P. Townsend, Lockport Executive Committee - P. Barry, Rochester; J. J. Thomas, .Union Springs; C. L Hoag, Lockport; W. B. Smith, Syracuse; Joseph Frost, Rochester.

The report of the Committee on Fruit will be found elsewhere.

The Committee on Subjects for Discussion reported the following:

1. The best method of gathering, packing, and transporting pears to market.

2. The best method of preserving fruits, so as in every way to prolong the period of consumption.

3. Can the yellows in the peach be introduced by the importation of trees from infected districts?

4. Which is the best stock for the cherry, for general purposes, the Mazzard or the Mahaleb?

5. The Northern Spy apple; what is the value of it as an orchard fruit?

6. Is it advisable to plant, in Western New York, the White Doyenne pear for orchard purposes, in view of its present liability to crack and spot in certain localities?

7. What is to,be understood by the term "a standard," and what by the term "a dwarf tree?"

8. What influence has the stock upon the graft in modifying or changing the quality of the fruit?

9. In transplanting trees, is pruning the tops and roots of importance, and if so, under what circumstances?

These subjects were taken up and discussed in the order named.

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The June meeting of this Society will be held at the Court House in Rochester, on Wednesday, the 25th day of June. These meetings are always very interesting, and we should be greatly indebted to Secretary Bissell for an abstract of the proceedings.

The autumnal meeting of this Society was held in September. We give a condensed account of the proceedings, embracing the more interesting facts stated in the discussions.

The annual meeting of this Society was held at the Court House, in Rochester. The following gentlemen were unanimously elected officers for the ensuing year: -

President - John J. Thomas, Union Springs.

Vice-Presidents - Asa Rows, Sweden; H. P. Norton, Brockport; E. C. Frost, Catharine. Secretaries - J. B. Eaton, Buffalo; H. E. Hooker, Rochester. Treasurer - W. P. Townsend, Lockport.

A committee having been appointed to propose subjects for discussion, made a report, of the following questions, which were discussed in the order reported: -

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The annual meeting of this Society will be held in the Court House, Rochester, on Wednesday, January 9th, at 11 o'clock A.M. The proceedings are usually very interesting, and we shall be enabled to lay them before our readers.

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The summer meeting of the Fruit Growers' Society Of Western New York, was held at the Court House in Rochester, on Wednesday, Sept. 29th, at 11 o'clock, A. M. The following are the subjects discussed:

Stocks - their influence, and the propriety of selecting or rejecting the different stocks commonly or uncommonly used for pear, plum, peach, and other fruits.

Pears - can they be grown profitably for mankind? and if so, in what way, and under what circumstances? What are the most frequent causes of the failure of the pear ?

Grapes - best varieties - best modes of cultivation - etc.

Subject 3. Can the yellows in the peach be introduced by the importation of trees from infected districts?

H. N. Langworthy thinks the yellows can bo communicated by using a knife in budding which had previously been used upon an infected tree. A tree diseased from the yellows will ripen its fruit a month earlier than a healthy tree; but it will die the same year. It gives the leaves a yellowish appearance, and gum oozes from the branches.

L. B. Langworthy thinks yellows is contagious. Knew of a case where five hundred fine healthy peach trees were set out, were well cultivated, and made a fine growth. In three different parts of this orchard some trees were struck with the yellows, and around these parts there were circles of diseased trees. Knew of one person who desired to test this question, and inoc-. ulated a healthy tree with the virus, and it killed it. I budded a tree once with wood from a tree with yellows, and I thus killed my tree.

Dr. Sylvester agreed with the gentleman. David Thomas once received trees from New Jersey which were diseased; but he cut down and burned at once every tree which showed signs of the yellows. If this disease is allowed to extend in western New York, it will be as fatal to our trees as it is in New Jersey, where one or two crops of peaches are all that the fruitgrowers expect from a planting of the trees.

C. L. Hoag impressed upon members the importance of avoiding these yellows in western New York, if possible. A friend of his had lost about all his orchard by planting a diseased tree from the east Charles Downing: has known the disease for twenty or thirty years, and believes it contagious. If a diseased tree remain, all the surrounding trees take the disease and die. The only way is to remove the diseased tree or trees; and whenever and wherever I see one I take it out The disease can be carried by matter or " virus".

Mr. Sharp would warn people that many New Jersey trees are being sold here; was fearful lest we become like New Jersey.

H. E. Hooker knew of old orchards which were planted with trees brought from New Jersey, and which are this day good trees; have also seen orchards planted with trees from the same locality, and these trees have had the yellows. Thinks it best to be cautious as to planting New Jersey trees. No conscientious nurseryman would be guilty of filling his orders with diseased trees, nor would ho be implicated in sending to any farmer trees which would or will infest their standing orchards.

Dr. Sylvester remembered that in 1836 there was not in New Jersey one-tenth of the disease called "yellows" which there is at present. The New Jersey nurserymen send here for their peach pits to plant, and evidently think that the disease is not only contagious, but can be communicated by the pits.

Mr. Downing thought the same.

Mr. Hooker stated that New Jersey trees sent south do not have it.

Mr. Barry's opinion was that yellows is not contagious; but still would prefer not to buy trees from infected districts. Some persons think it is communicated by the blossom. The cure for the yellows seems to be a good fertile soil. The cause of it (I think) is a poor soil; impoverished by heavy cropping; and by keeping trees in such soil we can make it constitutional.

P. W. Say, of Monroe County, never saw a case of it in his town, and farmers raise large crops of peaches there. The best orchards in Greece came originally from New Jersey, fifteen or sixteen years ago; but have not seen it in trees brought later from the east.

Mr. Barry - All the young peach orchards in New Jersey look as healthy as any of ours do, but when three or four years old they have the yellows. Nursery trees there do not have, or at least do not show the yellows; but, generally, after bearing their second crop of peaches, the New Jersey orchards all die. Still in some parts even of New Jersey they are exempt from the disease.