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Red has not shown an apple; Newtown Pippin, Red Astrachan and Early 

 Harvest, ditto. Tolman's Sweet is a favorite in the house. I have other 

 varieties, but have had no fruit from any of the kinds worth mentioning, 

 save on the Smith's Cider, and Benoni. 



Mr. Hollister — How about the Red June ? 



Mr. Pearson — When you can get them free from scab and good 

 size, they are fine, not otherwise. I would mention that I have the fruits 

 of the black walnut, hickory, and persimmon on my place. I want, but 

 have not got, the pawpaw; and my advice is, that when we find it unprofit- 

 able to grow the apple and other domestic fruits, that we go back to the 

 indigenous fruits — the hazlenut, persimmon and pawpaw. [Laughter.] 



Dr. B. F. Long explained his position upon this whole question. 

 He is one of our oldest orchardists, and has large experience in the busi- 

 ness. He had made more money out of the little Romanite than any 

 other apple. He had made a good deal out of the Early Harvest and 

 Red Astrachan. He said : I have in my orchard, planted in 1839, 

 varieties like the Northern Spy, and Yellow Bellflower, that are not worth 

 the ground they stand upon. I believe in cultivating the orchard, and 

 the manures best suited to the orchard are lime, ashes and stable manure. 

 Young orchards are the most profitable — can hardly fail to be profitable 

 for a few years. But taking the orchards over the country as we find 

 them, and they are not profitable, generally, to their owners — not that 

 the business can not be made so, but simply it is not made so. More 

 attention must be paid to the culture and care of the orchard, if you 

 would make it profitable. The war upon the insects must not cease. 

 Indeed, there must be no let-up in diligence, if we expect good fruit 

 and paying prices. 



Adjourned for dinner. 



IN MEMORIAM. 



Your committee, to whom you have delegated the duty of preparing 

 an expression of your feeling from the loss of Dr. E. S. Hull and his wife, 

 can not undertake to place an estimate upon the loss of those, so well 

 known to the friends of horticulture. They, therefore, in full sympathy 

 with you, submit the following brief record and ask that it may be spread 

 upon your records : 



DR. E. S. HULL. 



Born, May, 1816. Died, November. 1875. 



President of the Alton Horticultural Society, 1853, 1864. 

 President of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, 1859, 1875. 



