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replied: Keep the temperature as near freezing as possible and the fruit 

 tightly barreled till spring except as wanted for use. 



Mr. Gaefield: A good fruit house may be made by building eight- 

 inch walls filled with sawdust all around, using cheap boards if desired. I 

 lately saw perfect Spies in such a house. 



LATE PEAES AND THEIE KEEPING. 



Mr. QuACKENBOSS: How can late pears be kept? How long can you 

 keep Anjou? 



Mr. Scott : Till January, although I usually market them in 

 November. 



Mr. Ilgenfeitz: Late pears should be put into tight boxes in a cold 

 place and brought to warmth and light to ripen them. He com- 

 mended the Vicar, Lawrence, and Winter Nelis. The latter is hard to get 

 except by top-grafting. The Vicar is not very good except in some seasons 

 when it is really fine. 



Mr. Scott: I grow Bosc but little, but wish I had more of it. Its 

 color is against it, but it is selling better as it becomes better known. 



Mr. W. H. Payne of South Haven: I have kept apples and pears long 

 and perfectly, packed tightly with perfectly dry maple leaves between 

 each layer. 



Mr. MoERiLL: Keeping is wholly a question of packing and tempera- 

 ture. Pack only the fruit of first quality and do it thoroughly. In Ben- 

 ton Habor, men are now rolling Baldwin apples out of their cellars at $3.50 

 per barrel, which have been kept at about freezing point ever since they 

 went in. 



Mr. Lyon: From $10 to $25 invested in a cold-house in which no ice 

 need be used, will provide for the keeping of even perishable fruits several 

 days, and apples indefinitely if put into the cold-house while cool. 



Adjournment was made till 7:30 o'clock, P. M. 



Evening Session. 



After the reading of a report on exhibits, which only showed the pres- 

 ence of a few varieties of winter apples, William Waenee, of Ludington, 

 asked if any one had found little yellow flies underneath the plum leaves. 

 Such insects had badly injured some of his trees. 



Mr. Sessions: I have seen such but do not know of their doing any 

 harm. 



Mr. Gulley: It is some sort of aphis and spraying will be effective 

 against it. 



Mr. Sessions: (In reply to a question.) There is no particular differ- 

 ence in plums on the whole, as to liability to disease. Lombard is worst 

 of all, as to leaf-drop. Pond's Seedling is very hardy with us. 



Mr. Lyon: There are two Pond's Seedlings, one American and one 

 English. The latter is the one cultivated in Oceana county. 



Mr. Gaefield: I have some trees of this variety, but they have 

 proved to be unfruitful and unhealthy. 



Mr. Scott : Perhaps, like all things American they need protection. 



