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5. In setting grapes upon hillsides, should terraces he made? 

 Mr. Beebe: Yes, else the soil will wash out. 



6. Is the Industry gooseberry subject to mildew, and in ivhat season? 

 It was said to be, to some extent. 



7. Has the grafting of grapes been a success ? 



Mr. Phillips: Yes, a good success. It is done upon the same principle 

 as the grafting of the apple, cutting off the vine low down and inserting 

 scions just before flow of sap begins. 



8. Are curl-leaf and leaf blight the same? 



No. 



SMALL FEUIT CULTUEE. 



Mr. Maetin Hitchcock of Ludington, invited to speak on small fruits, 

 said he had been trying to grow them for profit. I had new land, from 

 which I took the stumps and stones and i3ut on a dressing of barnyard 

 manure, putting in a crojD of corn the year before setting the bushes. I 

 set the plants six by four feet apart. I have the Cuthbertand Grregg, with 

 a few Brandywine and Clark for trial. My best success has been with the 

 former two. I prefer plants which started in the spring, gotten near home 

 I set two in each hill and pinch at one foot in height. I cultivate the soil 

 well, keeping out suckers and weeds. I have been through six times 

 already. The second year I pinch at two feet and let the laterals grow, 

 cutting them at one foot in the spring, removing all old and surplus wood. 

 I prefer sandy loam for red raspberries and clay loam for blacks. I culti- 

 vate the Wilson strawberry still, and came here to learn of other kinds. 

 At five cents per quart there is a good money in strawberries, but I would 

 not like to take less. I would like to get eight cents for raspberries [A 

 voice: I wish you could.] which I usually do, as they do not yield as many 

 bushels. 



Mr. Robinson asked as to the Shaffer raspberry, and Mr. Beebe 

 highly recommended it. 



At the opening of the Wednesday afternoon session. President Lannin 

 was to furnish a paper upon 



PEAES — varieties AND MANAGEMENT, 



which he did, reading one he had formerly given and which is printed in 

 the Eeport for 1888 of the Michigan State Horticultural society. 



Asked to state what varieties he would choose, and how many of each, 

 for an orchard of 1,200 trees, Mr. Lannin said this would differ according 

 to locations. For his own farm, which is rolling, though not very high, 

 which has a clay subsoil and is of gravely loam, the clay approaching the 

 surface in places, he would choose twenty-five Madeline, one hundred 

 Clapp's Favorite, two hundred or two hundred and fifty Bartlett, two 

 hundred or two hundred and fifty Anjou, one hundred Onondaga, two 

 hundred Bosc, one hundred Sheldon, one hundred Buerre Diel, and fifty 

 each of Goodale, Winter Nelis, Mt. Vernon, Frederick Clapp, Lawrence, 

 and Seckel. 



Responding to questions, Mr. Lannin said there were but three or four 

 varieties desirable as dwarfs — the Bosc (if double worked), Duchess, 



