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Dr. VVakuek (of Ohio) reminded the Society tluit, at their meeting; 

 at IJunker Hill, some years ago, some one proposed to cure the pear 

 blight with a spoke shave. He said: We laughed at the idea then, hut 

 I am not sure if the old man, who proposed this remedy, was not right ; 

 I think I have stayed the ravages of blight upon my own trees by cutting 

 out the black patches as they appeared here and there upon them. 



Prof. Turner (of Jacksonville) — More than twenty years ago I prac- 

 ticed on my pear trees with a jack-knife, and thought for a while that I 

 was succeeding. But the trees got into such a chronic habit of being 

 doctored and patched, that they seemed to look for it; but these same 

 trees, from which I had taken out every speck of the dead patch, so care- 

 fully, went down like a person with the consumption ; at last I got sick 

 of the jack-knife practice, and quit it, and for ten years I have neither 

 practiced, or spoken of this thing in public, advising it. 



Mr. Starr (of Jersey county) — 1 want to say to the gentlemen 

 from Warsaw, who say they can not grow the finer variety of cherries, 

 and hence they grow the Early Richmond, that they can grow them. It 

 is said the cold winters there are unfavorable. How much colder is it in 

 Warsaw than in New York, and some other localities where the sweet 

 cherries are grown ? It is not the inclement winter that kills the tree, 

 but the heat of summer; and if you will plant your trees on the northeast 

 side of a building, you will get fruit ; or, if you will only protect the trees 

 on the southwest side with boards, it will be of great service. There is 

 little trouble in growing sweet cherries when you know how. 



Mr. Jones — Suppose you plant on the north side of a hill? 



Mr. Starr — That would be a favorable location. 



Dr. Long — Friend Starr is a favored man ; his location is a peculiar 

 one, and the soil is peculiar, especially adapted to the cherry, and he can 

 liardly help having fruit. The effect of the Mississippi river, on the 

 west side of his place, is by no means a small item. Dr. Hull, on similar 

 soil and location, would have cherries and peaches, when I would have 

 none, being differently located. 



Mr. Starr — I will say this further, that wherever you can grow the 

 chestnut you can grow sweet cherries; it is not the cold that kills the 

 cherries, it is the heat. You are depriving yourselves of one of the best 

 of fruits, while you say " it is no use, we can not grow cherries." It is 

 not the location altogether that gives me my crops. The cherry tree is 

 one of the first trees to ripen its wood. You know this; it enters liie 



