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use in cutting away the inside of your tree. C'lil not at all , the more 

 yon cut the more damage you are doing the tree, as every amputation 

 gives occasion for scald, which poisons the tree. 



Mk. Johnson — If you do not trim at all, how do you cultivate? 



Mr. WiEK — It does no goofl to i)low under the tree. Besides, you 

 can get just as close to low-headed trees as to high-headed ones after these 

 have been bearing a few years ; for those branching low tend to extend 

 their branches upward, while those throwing out their lowest liml)s five or 

 six feet from the ground, tend to droop so that the ends nearly or 

 quite touch the ground. I repeat, that you injure a tree when you cut it ; 

 you can not cut even for purposes of grafting without some damage, for 

 you make a wound that will forever tell against you. 



Dr. HuMrHREV (of Galesburg) — There are exceptions to what friend 

 Wier says. I have trees top-grafted with Ben Davis, and you can not 

 tell where the one sort begins and the other ends — so perfect is the heal- 

 ing of the wound. But in many cases the injury is apj)arent. 



Mr. Wier — I do not mean to say that top-grafting apple trees may 

 not be successful. 



The Society then adjourned. 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. 



The President called the meeting to order at one o'clock and forty- 

 five minutes, and announced as the special order the reports of Secretary 

 and Treasurer. 



The Secretary, O. B. Galusha, presented the following report : 



SECRETARV'S REPORT 



For the Fiscal Year commencing the Second Tuesday ok Decemuer, 

 1874, and closinc; the Second Monday or December, 1875. 



To the Officers and Members of the Illinois State Horticultural Society. 



Gentlemen : The year just closed has been one which never will be 

 forgotten by any of us; so many, to us, remarkable events have been 

 crowded into it. 



Soon after the clo.se ot our last meeting the sad news came to us ot 

 the death of one of our oldest, most useful and respected members — 

 ex-President M. L. Dunlap, of Champaign. Next followed, in March, 



