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prices rule lower, while early ripening varieties bring high prices. 

 I have tasted the Idaho and liked it very much ; it is large and 

 handsome; think it much better than Keifer. 



F. I. Crowe — What does it cost to spray? 



Mr. Browne — Hardly anything after you have the apparatus. 

 Spray as soon as the flowers drop, and then about ten days later. 

 For spraying plums a much weaker solution must be used than 

 is used on apples. Am afraid we cannot use the spray on peach 

 trees at all. The leaves are too tender. They tried it in Southern 

 Illinois and all the leaves dropped off the trees. 



Mr. Riehl — It may have been caused by their using a poor pump. 

 It will not pay to use anything but the best apparatus. If the 

 pump has not a pressure of nearly one hundred pounds to the 

 square inch, the spray will be too coarse, and will collect in drops 

 on the lower edge of the leaves, thus burning and causing them 

 to drop off. The Nixon Machine Company have now brought 

 their prices down to a very reasonable rate. I believe their' s to 

 be the best pumps and nozzles made. 



VINEYARDS. 



Pruning should all be done by this time. 



Mr. Pearson— I have in a row of perfectly healthy Nortons' 

 Virginia, two vines that suddenly died last summer and became 

 black down to the roots. What was the matter with them? 



Mr. Riehl — There is a beetle, black, and about two inches in 

 length, that sometimes gets under a vine and eats off the roots. 

 Perhaps if you will look you may find them at the bottom of this 

 mischief. 



Mr. M'Pike — I think blue grass the best preventive for rot. 

 My Concords, where in blue grass, were good, even last year. 



Mr. Browne— I shall set out next spring 800 Moore's Early 

 and Brighton. Have found them the best of all early grapes. 



REPORT OF CULINARY VEGETABLES. 



BY J. M. PEARSON, GODFREY. 



Mr. President: — I do not intend, in this report, to lay down 

 rules calculated to guide the professional market gardener. I 

 will try, however, to write something that will put the farmer 

 and fruit grower in remembrance of some things necessary to be 

 done to insure a continued supply of fresh vegetables, for 



