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and the necessary, but always slight trimming. To do this properly 

 requires a thorough study of the tree as a species as well as an indi- 

 vidual, that not only the present needs may be met, but that the 

 future development shall be as wished. It would be an excellent 

 thing for the street trees if in every corporation there was a village 

 improvement society, in which the matter was fully and intelligently 

 discussed and then a committee appointed to care for the trees as a 

 specialty. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OX FINAL RESOLUTIONS. 



Would recommend thanks to the various railroads and hotels that 

 have granted concessions to our members ; to those who have furnished 

 the hall for our use ; to those who have made a display of fruits and vege- 

 tables ; to the decorators of the hall ; to the ladies for the excellent music, 

 and to all those who have furnished papers for our discussion. 



F. I. Mann, 

 F. Cadwell, 

 F. J. Heinl, 



Committee, 



Society adjourned sine die. 



ADDITIONAL PAPERS. 



CAN WE RAISE PEACHES IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS? 



BY G. W. MINIER, MINIER. 



For the last three years T have experimented on the raising of 

 peaches in Central Illinois, and have succeeded in spite of our severe 

 winters. Being satisfied with my plan, I now wish to present it to 

 the Central Illinois Horticultural Society ; permitting said Society to 

 use my plan to its entire satisfaction, and to obtain a patent if it 

 choose to do so. 



Late in autumn, some time in November, with a sharp spade cut 

 the roots of the tree on two parallel sides, some six or eight inches 

 from the tree ; throw out the severed roots and soil to the depth of 

 the spade, and some two feet in length. The tree must then be bent 

 carefully to the ground, and fastened down. I used forked sticks for 

 this. Lay over the prostrate tree some limbs of trees or corn-stalks, 

 throw on a few spades' full of soil, then carefully fill the cavities at 

 the root of the tree with earth, or well-pulverized manure. In this 

 situation the tree rests till about the first of April. Remove the 



