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upon his place. Always destroyed them in season. He re- 

 marked that where the wild cherry grew in groves, caterpil- 

 lars were not often found on them, but otherwise when 

 growing alone. He agreed with Mr. N. as to the best kind 

 of grapes, and gave his mode of cultivation, of eight feet high 

 trellices with horizontal bars, &c. He prunes in the summer, 

 leaving three joints beyond the last bearing bud. 



Mr. Thomas, from the Wabash, a successful fruit raiser, 

 gave his plans of culture, one of which was not to plow his 

 orchard, but keeps the ground loose and moist by putting 

 chip manure about the trees. With this method the other 

 gentlemen could not agree. 



Much was said of the curculio and it=i ravages upon differ- 

 ent fruits, but nothing new elicited. 



Gov. Wright remarked that while so many respectable 

 nurserymen were scattered over the State in whom implicit 

 confidence could be placed, no farmer should buy trees from 

 or have those he had grafted by strangers of whom he knows 

 nothing, and whom he may never see or hear of again. Much 

 imposition had "been practised in this business, to the great 

 detriment of our fruit. In regard to the varieties of apples, 

 he placed the Jenneting first and the Rambo next. Why, said 

 he, will not people all enjoy the luxury and profit of fruit? 

 He had known men to sell yearly $400 to $600 worth of 

 apples, while their neighbors as regularly by their neglect or 

 indolence, deprived themselves of all fruit or profits from it. 

 He agreed with Messrs. G. and N. in regard to their estimate 

 of the value of flowers, and said he, " were I a young man, 

 I would not visit a young lady a second time whose parlor 

 or garden I did not find decked with these beauties of God's 

 creation." 



Dr. Lewis of Vanderburgh gave his theory of blight, which 

 differed from that advanced by the other gentlemen. Dr. L., 

 since following Downing's directions for pruning currants, 

 has been quite successful with that fruit. His peaches never 



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