WAESAW HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 323 



A discussion on entomology favored the burning, in the spring- 

 time, of all stubble and weed fields. 



Report on vegetables indicated a very full and fine crop. Onions, 

 though a good crop, have rotted badly. 



Reports on orchards show a fair crop of apples, with a moderate 

 supply of plums and pears. The trees have made better and healthier 

 growth than last year, and go into winter in favorable condition. 

 The per cent, of this year's crop still in the hands of the producers 

 is very small; say 5 per cent. 



Messrs. Leeper and J. T. Johnson have their crops in apple- 

 houses. They are keeping fairly well. The temperature of these 

 apple-houses is below forty degrees. 



A question by C. B. Rockwell : If now only twenty-five years 

 old, how many would plant an orchard for commercial purposes ? 



A. C. Hammond and two or three others answered : Yes; we 

 would still plant. 



Mr. Rockwell — - Then, what would you plant ? 



Mr. Hammond — Ben Davis principally, unless I found some- 

 thing of more profit. 



Mr. Rockwell — Will the demand justify the efEort ? 



Mr. Hammond — Yes; always. There are just now many new, 

 and some promising varieties of apples being tested. 



J. T. Johnson — Horticulture is an actual necessity and demands 

 the very greatest efforts of which we are capable. 



REPORT ON BERRIES. 



C. B. Rockwell — I have added a thousand Sucker State straw- 

 berries to my new plantations in 1888. They have grown almost as 

 luxuriantly as my Crescents. 



Mr. Emerson — I have one of the most thrifty growths of 

 strawberry vines to be seen anywhere. The foliage is so dense that 

 there seems no necessity for a mulch for winter protection. 



C. C. Hoppe — What shall we do about the birds ? Last year 

 they began with my strawberries, and in turn attacked every kind of 

 berry or cherry I produced. 



