TRANSACTIONS OF WARSAW HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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Mr. J. S. Johnson had seen much of the work of three kinds of 

 potato-bugs the present season ; he designated them as the ten-lined, the 

 three-lined, and the black, or long bug. 



Mr. Charles Ames had seen very few potato-bugs this year, except the 

 old long black bug. They grew lighter in color with age. 



A member had drowned all his bugs in a bucket of soap-suds and 

 saved his potatoes. Dr. N. Lyon had done the same, only when he put 

 them out to dry they all waked up and went to work again ; hereafter he 

 should treat them to Paris green. 



Dr. Ames had his cabbage injured by the green-worm, but had found 

 an application of salt, or of salt and tobacco, a good remedy. 



Mr. Jonathan Berry had known this pest in the East. They were 

 from the small white butterfly-moth. 



Mr. C. Dennis read from the volume of State Horticultural Society 

 for 1878 a short history of this pest and the manner of treating them to 

 get rid of them. 



NOVEMBER MEETING. 



Society met November 22d, at the office of Wm. N. Grover, in the 

 Empire building. 



The Secretary read a list of questions in regard to fruits, which elic- 

 ited the following answers : 



Russel's Prolific and Crescent Seedling strawberries were grown suc- 

 cessfully by several members. 



The Miami was the best black-cap raspberry. The Turner, a red 

 raspberry, was good, hardy and prolific. 



Mr. Chittenden recommended the Red Dutch currant. Mr. Charles 

 Ames would prefer the Cherry currant, if cut back before the first of April, 

 and well cultivated. They were unexcelled for fruit or wine. 



The gooseberry found no one at this meeting to champion it for 

 cultivation. (The Secretary thinks this a sad neglect.) 



President Hammond said Snyder was a good late blackberry. Black- 

 berries ripen earlier on poor or thin soil than they will on deep soil or 

 on highly fertilized land. 



Some of our orchardists this year report from 300 to 600 barrels of 

 cider made; most of it is put into extra good forty-gallon barrels after 

 being heated, in order to throw off as much carbonic acid gas and other 

 deleterious matter as was possible, in order to prevent its fermentation. 

 This year apples made about one-half gallon less of cider per bushel 

 than usual. Cider has been selling from five to eight dollars per barrel. 

 The price of shipping apples has ranged from sixty cents per barrel for 

 early apples all the way up to three dollars per barrel for latest shipments. 



Fine crops of Concord grapes were reported in many instances. It 

 was thought to be the most reliable grape for cultivation in this region. 

 It was thought that from 300 to 500 gallons of wine per acre could be 

 made from best Concord vineyards. 



