266 TRANSACTIONS OF THE HORTICULTURAL 



Budd, and Messrs. Minier, Wier and Gaston approve of this plan, 

 so it must be right. 



President Dennis — Several years ago I tried the experiment of 

 smoking plum trees with coal tar to drive away curculio. Ihad a 

 crop of plums, and concluded that I had discovered a long-sought- 

 for-secret, but found that others had plums without smoking. 



Dr. Schroeder — Will any branch of fruit growing pay with the 

 present low prices and uncertainty of crops? 



Mr. Vickroy — Yes, if properly managed, it will pay moderately; 

 perhaps as well as any ordinary business. 



Dr. Schroeder — I do not agree with Mr. Vickroy. With straw- 

 berries, blackberries and raspberries at one dollar per crate, and 

 grapes at one or two cents per pound, it is a losing business. In 

 the Lake Erie region they grow immense quatities of grapes, but 

 do not realize any profit from them. 



Mr. Dunlap — The time has been when the farmer could raise a 

 little more fruit than was needed for home use, and market it 

 profitably. That time has passed, and commercial fruit growing 

 has gone into the hands of the specialists, but every farmer should 

 plant for home use. 



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EVENING SESSION. 



The evening session was held in one of the halls of the Nor- 

 mal University, and was largely attended. The first paper was 



on 



WINDOW GARDENING. 



BY MISS JULIA GREEN, LACON. 



In reading a very fine article on education in a number of The 

 Chautauquan, I was much impressed with the story of the 

 sorrows of a widow, whose boys, one after another, ran away 

 from home to go to sea. She had always entertained a great 

 horror of the sea, although none of her relatives were sea-faring 

 men. She had always taken pains to tell the boys of the dangers 

 of the deep, of the terrible storms, and of the hardships and 

 privations to be endured by seamen. 



Living in an inland town, she had never given them the oppor- 

 tunity of reading or listening to sea stories. She was at a loss to 

 know why her sons were attracted to the life after all this, until 



