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White Peachblow. Clean cultivation and frequent hoeing is the price of 

 success in the garden ; this working of the garden at the right time is of 

 more importance than you may suppose ; get at it as early as you can see 

 in the morning and hoe the dew in. You will reap a richer harvest for your 

 early industry. 



Dr. Long, in answer to a question, said : I cover my potatoes four 

 or five inches deep with straw. I took, this year, twenty-three bushels of 

 potatoes from a piece of ground four by eight rods. I plant in rows 

 three feet apart and one foot in the row ; and I can succeed with planting 

 small potatoes as well as with large ones. Work every thing while the 

 dew is on, except beans. I am well satisfied with my experience. My 

 tools are not left out to rot and rust, as many are. I expect my men to 

 do a good day's work, and for this I give them .good tools. 



Mr. Robison — Is it good doctrine to teach, this getting out early in 

 the morning? 



Dr. Long — Yes ; I advise every man to get up in the morning early — 

 but do not stay out late at night. 



Mr. Jones moved that the election of officers, which will be the 

 regular order of business for nine o'clock to-morrow morning, be made 

 the special order for eleven o'clock, urging, as a reason, that many of the 

 members could not attend at the opening of the meeting. 



The motion prevailed, and the Society then adjourned. 



THURSDAY MORNING. 



The meeting was opened with pra)er by Rev. H. U. Hop'fman, of 



(Juinc y. 



Thk Pkksidkni stated that inasmuch as the election of officers, which 

 was the regular order for the morning, had been made the special order 

 for eleven o'clock, the next business would be re]K)rts from the Commit- 

 tee on General Horticulture, and called for a 



KKPORT FROM THE FIFTH HORTICULTURAL DISTRICT. 



Mk. (i. L. Bkinion, from the Standing Committee on General Horti- 



< iilliire, re])orts as follows for Centralia and \ ii init\ : 



The Fifth District embraces seventeen ( ounties, from most of which 

 I have no information relative to the status of horticulture therein. I 

 shall therefore report onl\ for the region around Centralia. 



