2i>0 ILLINOIS STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Starr — My orchard has never been severely cut. 



In answer to a question in regard to the prospect of the fruit crop, 

 Capt. HoLLiSTER said : The prospect for an apple crop is good. The 

 show for peaches is not good. In fact, I have not, as yet, been able 

 to find any live buds on my trees. 



Dr. Hull said that with him the Old Mixon and some other varieties 

 had enough buds left to make from a half to a full crop, if no late frosts 

 should come. Other varieties would prove a failure. 



Mr. Lyon knew of some apple orchards that would probably have 

 no more than a half crop — owing chiefly to overbearing last year, how- 

 ever, rather than the cold of the winter. 



Dr. Hull said we had prospect of a large crop of cherries, and he 

 predicted that we would have the, cherries without the cherry-bird. It 

 was his experience that a late spring cuts off the cherry-bird. 



Capt. Hollister made a favorable statement of the condition of the 

 vegetable market. The dernand was good, and the supply no more than 

 equal to it. The prices paid are fair. The only vegetables on the table 

 were the Late Rose potatoes, which the committee appointed to examine 

 them — Messrs. Hayden and Lyon — pronounced as probably the best late 

 potato, resembling in quality the Early Rose, and excelling that famous 

 variety in productiveness. The potatoes showed well, and were every 

 way desirable. They need a long season, and are giving growers satis- 

 faction. 



Dr. Hull inquired to what extent vineyards are being dug up as 

 unprofitable. 



Mr. Hayden answered that he had a talk with his neighbor, Mr. 

 Holland, recently, who is a nursery-man, and he informed him that he 

 had sold a very large quantity of grape roots. One man in Highland 

 was planting, this spring, seven acres, so that it would seem that vine- 

 yards were being planted as rapidly as they were being dug up. 



Capt. Stewart — The blackberries are used up with me. I find 

 that they are generally killed — Kittatinny and all. I shall dig mine all 

 >out and put in strawberries. I intend to make a strawberry plantation of 

 my place. It is my purpose to test all the varieties that promise well, 

 and when I find that which is good, you shall know it. I have some new 

 varieties that I shall fruit this spring. I have discarded the Nicanor, 

 which with Mr. Purdy stands at the head of his list of early berries. It 

 -will not do with us ; the berries lie too close to the grovnd ; they do not 

 ripen on both sides, and are not of good color. Thus far the Downing 



