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B/ackberrit'swftYt an entire failure, so far as I can learn. 1 had some 

 Missouri Mammoth, and some wild ones, that were alive to the tip ends 

 and bloomed beautifull)-, but the fruit was not picked, except by the birds, 

 and they earned all they got of them. Kittatinny and Wilson were all 

 killed to the ground at Da\enport, four niile^ from me. ^\'e don't get 

 rich on blackberry culture here. 



Grapes were a light crop, yet enough to keep prices low ; mostly 

 Concords. 



Cherry trees had so overborne the previous year that recuperation or 

 death was the motto, and no fruit was to be had except a it^ black Mo- 

 rellos. 



Thorough culture or mulching seems to be the necessity in growing 

 all small fruits, and a copious supply of moisture in ripening time is very 

 graciously accepted. We had a good supply of rain this season, but a 

 little too late for the benefit of our small fruit crop. The prospects are 

 now very fair for the coming season, and we hope to tell a more encourag- 

 ing story then. 



DELEGATES TO STATE SOCIETIES. 



Dr. Humphrey moved the appointment of delegates to the meetings 

 of the State Horticultural Societies of Iowa, Indiana, and Wisconsin ; 

 and to the meeting of the Horticultural Society of Northern Illinois. 



Mr. Starr moved an amendment, making each member of this 

 Society being present at the meeting of either of these bodies, our dele- 

 gate to the same. 



The amendment was accepted, and the motion prevailed. 



THE CANKER-WORM. 



Mr. Robison (of Tazwell county) called attention to the extensive 

 ravages of the canker-worm, in his county, and along the branches of 

 the Illinois river, and about Jacksonville. His own orchard was l)adly 

 damaged by them, the worms having entirely stripped a portion of the 

 trees of their foliage. A neighbor of his — Mr. Shaw, of Tremont — had 

 an orchard of four thousand trees entirely stripped of fruit and leaves 

 early in the season. The worms were so abundant that you could not 

 walk through the orchard without being molested by them. He would 

 like to know what was the best thing to do to rid the orchard of these 

 pests. 



The Secretary — The fruit growers of Illinois should carefully 

 examine the volumes of the reports of this Society, for information upon 

 all matters connected with their occupation. In volume five may be 

 found eighteen pages devoted to the canker-worm, in which Dr. LeBaron, 

 our late State Entomologist, gave a history of this insect, with full 



