Excerpt from The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, 1868, Vol. 34 The record of the year is encouraging in all the departments of horticulture. While there has been no prominent subject of general discussion, there has still been a deep and encour aging interest manifested throughout the country, particularly in grape culture and fruit growing. These have been more especially discussed by the numerous publications upon the culture of the grape, and the manufacture of wine, and throughout the West, where the season has been highly favorable, grape growing is attracting universal attention. In fruit culture generally renewed interest has been awakened by the Eleventh Biennial Meeting of the American Pomologi cal Society at St. Louis, which was very fully attended by the prominent cultivators of the West, and the exhibition of grapes, as well as other fruits, was fully equal 1101 the expecta tions of the members. The meeting was a most favorable opportunity for the western cultivators to consult together, and make a record of horticultural progress in that fertile region of the country. A great deal has been done in the introduction of fruits, and. All the numerous varieties of grape are now in course of' culture. Large numbers of these were on exhibition, and an opportunity afforded eastern members to form some estimate of their value. The apple, it was thought, did not receive so much attention as it should have done, but a reference to previous meetings will show, we think, that it was not from any want of appreciation of its merits, but rather to the limited time allowed the meeting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.