150 STATE HORTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



A VAEIETY OF TOPICS. 



KELATIONS BETWEEN MICHIGAN AND ILLINOIS. 



Responding to a call, Mr. Henry Augustine, the delegate from the 

 Illinois State society, said: I do not like to say much here of horticulture, 

 least I mislead some one, for I am in a strange land, a land of horticultural 

 wonders. I have learned many things which are peculiar, such as the 

 injury to a grape crop in one place while the adjoining vineyard wholly 

 escaped. When one of us suffers in Illinois, all suffer together. I have 

 been puzzled to know how you can grow peaches here, when we can not 

 grow them at all, but I begin to see. Michigan horticulture is of great 

 value to Illinois, for the reason that it is so largely different, and supplies 

 us with choice fruit which we can not ourselves successfully produce. 

 There are 400,000 acres of apple orchards in Illinois, yet we feel justified 

 by the demand in planting more. You of Michigan, keep on growing 

 your fine peaches; send them down to us, and we will return for them 

 good Ben Davis apples. 



A Voice: Send them all to Denmark. 



DO FRUIT BUDS OF VIGOROUS TREES AND PLANTS BETTER RESIST FROST? 



President Morrill told how the use of wood ashes and ground bone in 

 his peach orchard, by making stronger wood and buds, had saved it from 

 damage by frost. He thought it probable that Mr. Munson's vineyard 

 was saved by some such condition of good fertility of 'the soil, when the 

 vines of his neighbors suffered. 



Others contended that differences in soil had chiefly to do with exemp- 

 tion from frost, not only as to kind of soil, but elevation, air drainage, 

 depth of water from the surface, etc. Tests should be made as to the 

 liability of localities to frost, before extensively planting the grape. 



Mr. MuNSON: Now you see how I get amusement, asking people why 

 their grapes were hurt and mine remained unharmed. I get all sorts of 

 opinions, but none can tell me anything about it, save that it is some 

 peculiarity of the place. The longer we live, sometimes, the less we know. 



Mr. Morrill insisted that while there were these peculiarities in lands 

 and locations, still, better fertility has very much to do with the resistance 

 of plants and trees against not only frost, but other untoward conditions. 

 He believed it had very much to do with Mr. Munson's exemption. 



