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setter warrants your trees to live, have the time extended to the third spring-. 

 Then if thev show a healthy foliage it is safe to pay the man for setting them. 

 A guaranty for one year is nothing; for a maple tree has vitality enough in its 

 trunk to throw out the leaf if all the lihrous roots are dead when set. Mulch 

 with chip dirt, tan hark, or some coarse material, as soon as the trees are set, 

 to retain the moisture around the roots. Build a high protection around the 

 trees, that horses cannot reach ahove, and guard against boys and careless men 

 who leave their horses without hitching. The least wound upon the trunk of a 

 maple tree when the sap is dormant will ultimately ruin it. It will never heal, 

 and the wood becomes dry and brittle, and will break off when the top becomes 

 heavy, and your tree, perhaps ten or fifteen years old, is gone. 



Doctors should hitch their horses to posts set in the ground for that purpose, 

 and not to our trees. Delivery boys should be careful that their horses do not 

 girdle our shade trees. The laws of this State are very severe on those who 

 injure shade trees, either carelessly or maliciously. 



Something of a discussion followed on the subject matter of the paper ; most 

 of the talk was very useful, but only a few sentences, relatively, can be given. 



Mr. Knapp. — Borers are the cause of the death of two-thirds of the maple 

 trees set in this city, the second year after they are transplanted. 



Mr. Suttle. — There is an objection to using chips or coarse chip manure for 

 mulching. The borers work in them for a shelter, and then destroy the trees. 

 Mulch the trees with straw or manure. 



W. X. Cook. — One serious difficulty in transplanting trees is the habit of 

 getting those that are too large. It is seldom that trees more than two inches 

 in diameter live. My experience, — and the shade in front of my house is the 

 fairest on Lagrave street, — is that it is better to make haste slowly in growing 

 maples. And in setting them they should be well protected from roving stock 

 and all manner of damage. I have found that, though I set my trees but once, 

 I have had better luck than some of my neighbors who have set out trees seven 

 or eight times since then. 



Dr. Sala Smith. — One trouble with transplanted trees is their danger from a 

 disease of the bark from too great heat upon the exposed or unprotected trunk, 

 similar in its nature to exema in human beings. When trees are transplanted 

 they should be protected from the direct rays of the sun at the southeast expo- 

 sure, until their tops grow enough to shade and protect them. Many trees owe 

 their death to sun scald, and the resulting evils. Borers are almost sure to 

 work in trees whose bark has been so affected. Excessive cold is quite as bad 

 as too great heat. The cold of the winter of 1872-3 killed many forest trees; 

 even the oak grubs, in some localities. 



Mr. P. W. Johnson. — In transplanting trees I select those that are exposed 

 in the forest, and then try to sot them so that they stand, with reference to the 

 points of compass, just as they did before transplanting. The southeast expo- 

 sure of the tree is the toughest, and that fact should be remembered. 



President Bradfield stated that he had tried unsuccessfully during the past 

 four years to grow maple trees. Ee fchoughi all maples were injured by the 

 cold winters of 1872-3 and 1874-5. 



secretary's report of the \knual fair. 



the Hon. President and Members of the G. B. V. IT. Society : 



The annual fair for 1S7G is a thing of the past, and I can but congratulate 

 you, one and all, on its having been the grandest success of any fruit cxhibi- 



