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iiified in any man to be pleased with the culture of flowers, 

 for it is a simple and pleasurable employment which tends 

 much to make home attractive. 



Mr. G. also gave a learned opinion in regard to the nature 

 and cause of different kinds of blight, for a report of which 

 we have not room, further than to say he regarded it as an 

 epidemic, similar to that of the potatoe rot. 



Mr. Nelson remarked in regard to caterpillars, that wher- 

 ever wild cherry trees grew about farms, these insects were 

 sure to be also. He therefore dispensed with these trees. 



The dry rot had threatened to prove injurious to his Bald- 

 win, Rhode Island Greening and Roxbury Russet species of 

 apples. 



Mr. N. was a delegate to the late National Pomological 

 Convention, where the Ohio fruit appeared superior to any ,,^ 

 exhibited. Though Indiana had no specimens there, he 

 thinks she can produce any equal to that of Ohio, and conse- ^ 

 quently cannot be surpassed as a fruit raising State. He re-'. 

 gards fruit as profitable either for market or as food for stock. 

 When a resident of New York, had seen valuable lot of hogs 

 fattened entirely upon apples. 



He agreed with Judge G. as to the moral effect of horticul-^ 

 ture. It was a wonder to him why so few engaged in fruit 

 raising, and were thus deprived of the many comforts they 

 might possess. Grapes, which it is no trouble to raise any 

 where and by any person, were seldom found among our 

 farmers. He had them in abundance, and kept them the sea-u/ 

 son through in perfection. His advice was to plant none butiy 

 the Catawba and Isabella. No foreign grape was worth cul- 

 tivating; and from considerable experience and money spent, 

 he said were he planting 100 vines, 99 of them should be 

 Catawba. Mr. N. had been successful with several English' L 

 varieties of gooseberries, whose names he knew not. They ^• 

 did not mildew, tliough some grew on moist and others upon 

 high and dry ground. He used chip manure exclusively. 



Mr. Gookins said he never had a full grown caterpillar yet^i 



