2dQ State Horticultural Society. 



the right to dig those trees the last week in October, or the first two 

 weeks in November, and heel them under in clean earth. Xow you can 

 store trees in caves or cellars in the same way if you could have the 

 roots all up, and leave it cold enough for them to freeze; let the ther- 

 mometer get down five to ten degrees below freezing and open up your 

 ventilator, and when it gets very cold close up your ventilator, but keejv 

 that place cold and your trees will retain that vitality ; that has been mv 

 experience. 



Question : Are the Elberta and Elberta Queen the same peach ? 



JNIr. Evans : There is no such thing as an Elberta Queen. Certain 

 people call the Elberta, the Elberta Queen or the queen of peaches. That 

 is how I suppose that comes around. 



Question : Is there an Elberta Cling ? 



]\Ir. Evans : No. 



Question : Are the-Benoni and the Red June the same apple ? 



Sec. Goodman : No. 



Question : What color is the Winter Banana, and would you advise 

 planting it? 



Sec. Goodman : The Winter Banana is an apple, I think, we named 

 the Banana at the meeting we had at Warrensburg; the yellow apple 

 that resembles the Huntsman or Grimes Golden. That has never been 

 used very much. 



Question : What about cutting limbs oft' of trees, limbs three ta 

 four inches throuo'h? 



Sec. Goodman : No ; better not do that. 



J. J. Bartram. — ^^'hen agents sell apple trees grafted above the 

 ground, claiming that they use the whole seedling for one tree, and 

 that is the only way to get a long lifed tree, why do then nursery men 

 deliver trees grafted with scion 6 to 7 inches and the seedling root 

 5 to 6 inches long? 



Chas. F. Langtim. — Is there an}^ dift'erence in the productiveness 

 of two apple trees, one grafted with a scion taken from trimmings 

 of nurser}^ stock and one grafted w^ith a scion taken from old and 

 bearing tree? In what degree are the bearing qualities of the tree, 

 produced from scion of nursery stock, affected, if any? Does it pro- 

 duce a tree of sh}^ bearing qualities, or late bearing qualities? Or does 

 it have a tendency to produce a tree almost barren, other things being- 

 equal? If not, how can I account for the failure of my Ben Davis 

 trees to bear, now 14 years old? Have not produced one bushel per 

 tree for all the past four 3^ears. I have as fine trees as an}^ but they 

 do not bear. 



Mr. Wood. — I w^ill just say a word in regard to a Bgn Davis 



