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BURL LINC,T TON:
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26 1853,
THE CUAMPLAIN VALLEY UoRTl-
TIITJTJRAI SOCIETY
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TICUJTTRAE SOCIETY
Held its Annual Meeting on Tuesday Of
last week in this place. The principal hn-
anoss was to hear the Reports Of tho ES-
ccutive Committee and Of the Standing Fruit /
Committee and to elect the officers for the |
year ensuing.
The Report Of the Executive Committee |
smoke ofthc distribution ola few Seeds, S'ions /
aud Grapc-cuttings to members of the Society.
Though little had been accomplished in this
way. vet something in firthcranco of th" OBJ
iects of the Society had been done.
Regret was expressed at the want of suita-
bio accommodations, as to space and convent
ence. at the Annual Exhibition and the ne
cesgitv was urged Of having the Exhibitions
of tho Society, always hereafter, in conse-
ouence of the delicacy and frailty Of many,
if not most Of the productions, within a shell
tered room, where they could be personally
watched and examined. While, however,
there was much of a personal kind to be dis
agreeable to the tasto and to the convenience
Of the members Of the Society, new and
larger class of people became acquainted with
our fruits and flowers, and were surprised at
their number, variety, excellence and beauty,
This will. hereafter increase the number who
nav take an interest in the Society.
The Report from tho % Standing Commit
tee on Fruits - was but partial, owing to the
late illness Of the Chairman, and his not OK
aiming car fully the Fruit, on exhibition,
for reasons assigned He, however, proposed
q few queries, which, though deemed by him
not new, were still of sufficient importance
to be reiterated, and in the opinion Of the
Society to be published, as by vote they
directed They are as follows
Tho first query i this, whether we have not by
this time facts enough to warrant US in the conc'u-
SION that there are some fruits which are on the
whole better adapted 10 this climate and region,
and which turn out Of ettcrquaity, y,while at the
same time they more easily cultivated than IN
any other known region Of the United states II
there are such fruits, ought it not t. be distinctly
known what they are, and ought not such
fruits to be recommended above all others, so i as
they arc known, for general culture, by this aoci-
ETY. ...
The second query i, whether We have not by tins
time facts enough before t. show that there are
some fruit- which however highly recommended
for general culture in other parts Of the country
cannot be made, except in some special localities
to succeed with us and ought not every such ltult
so far as has been a subject Of fair trial III various
parts of this Valley, and found 70 fail either III
respect to hardness or to the quality of the fruit
to be exposed without mercy and talked down hy
the members Of this Society
The ird query j., whether when a new !rult o
Yfart .t..I
found tu succeed well in any particular locality "
this region il would not Greatly promote the mt"
rest which we have in view to do all we cam To Aov
said fruit tried at once in every locality OF cur val
ley where We can get it introduced
, The fourth query is, since climate j. cue 81 to
most important thing, To Ice taken into account 10
the cultivation Of all truit-, aud since 81 hn, ne'I
found that each fruit require specific number IT,
/ days of a certain temperature. oracer'"n amour
of temperature during the growing 'ea'gH' Snort '
| which it cannot come to maturity, "Ao'acl -NlHe
lent attention hus been paid yet t' thi, point
by the grower, of the moro delicate sorts vttrul d
| our region and whether knowing tie eAae
| amount of temperature which the more utlc'i
fruits require in order to arrive az their perfection
would not save us the trouble ami 'HA1i'" o'
great many random experiments
p The fifth inquiry is, whether tho cultivation g.
| the pear on the ounce root must not o% tm
time, be pronounced thing not Practicable e\''I
in the most favorable situations, AMI not to bee r-
commended in any case, in all the more N't'1e'
parts Of the Champaiu Valley
! The sixth amt last INJURY i' WI. '"' any ''.-''
! oett'T coul' p' Hgu. ''i ... ~, in
,ba o.tatI;sb,,cr, f r,'.sr, On t l.-,., ..ll
at some central point IN tAi. ,iiy the I'.e . an
TnVyv, bo nursery y,' cstabi,Lment. now existing on N
! other .ide Of the Lake ''
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JouN WHEELER, President
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: R.T. RoBrNsoN, Fcrrisburgh,
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! W. C. WATSON, Port Kent, p..,,J,,
Z BUEL LANDoN, SOuth Hero
Henry SEYMOUR 81 Aloahs'
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