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advised nil to post their lands with notices forbidding all such nuisances on 

 their places. 

 Mrs. N. H. Pierce read a paper on the "Influence of Music and Flowers." 

 The purchase of an organ was favorably considered, and the executive com- 

 mittee was instructed to take the matter in hand. 



June Meeting. 



This being a strawberry meeting, the doings were mainly confined to the 

 discussion of strawberry culture. A good display of different varieties of straw- 

 berries cultivated in the county was made. 



J. D. Baldwin exhibited the Jucunda, Berge's Seedling, Monarch of the 

 West, and Seth Boyden ; J. Austin Scott, Seneca Chief; Jacob Ganzhorn, 

 Charles Downing and Wilson's Albany; Chas. H. Woodruff, his seedlings 

 known as No. 1 and No. 2, and a few other new varieties of his own raising ; 

 Prof. Emil Baur, Russell's Prolific. 



Mr. Woodruff was called upon by the president to open the discussion. He 

 explained the merits of his seedlings. He had found them through a series 

 of years to prove very satisfactory for a market berry. On being asked how 

 they compared with the Wilson for productiveness and size, he said that they 

 were fully equal in that respect to that variety, and held their size better to 

 the end of the picking. He claimed to have always received a little more in 

 the market than was paid for the Wilson. In size, the berries of those seed- 

 lings were about the same as those shown of the Wilson, — large and attractive 

 in appearance. His soil is a sandy loam on which he grows these berries. 



J. D. Baldwin gave the merits of the varieties he had on the table, giving 

 his preference rather to the Berge's Seedling, which was originated in Massa- 

 chusetts. He found this and the Wilson the most prolific berries out of the 

 14 varieties grown on his ground. 



Prof. Emil Baur said that the birds ou his place were more partial to the 

 Russell's Prolific, Jucunda, and Sharpless, — all superior table berries. The 

 first named is a favorite berry with him. In this connection he mentioned 

 that the public does not appreciate the better quality of strawberries, as they 

 continue to buy and prefer the Wilson ; and for this reason he cultivates the 

 better flavored berries for his own table, and grows the sour Wilson for the 

 market. 



Prof. B. E. Nichols said that he neglected to cover his strawberry plants last 

 winter and believed that the reason for his poor crop this season. He spoke 

 highly of the Triomphe de Gand as a berry of very high flavor, but he does not 

 succeed in getting large crops from it. He spoke unfavorably of Col. Cheney. 



N. B. Covert said he had tried the Triomphe de Grand but did not succeed 

 with it. He is marketing the crop of a half acre of the Wilson the present 

 season. The plants have wintered well he said, and their main protection was 

 grass which grew up in the plantation. He does not, however, approve of this 

 way of protection, the grass being the result of an aged plantation. Straw 

 was spoken of as a good mulch for both winter and summer use. 



Prof. Baur grows strawberries between his peach trees, and wherever the 

 peach tree leaves have mulched the plants in the winter he has the most fruit. 

 He believes these leaves to be a good protection for the strawberry plant in the 

 winter. In places where the leaves did not fall upon the plants or were blown 

 away, the crop is much lighter. 



