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Dr. Hav said that experience had proved that some varieties had 

 proved best on our bluffs, while others had done best on the prairies. 



Mr. Walker said the Red June was a good bearer, but was small and 

 not marketable. 



Mr. Hammond — Don't the apples scab? 



Mr. Walker — They do not with me. 



Mr. Hathaway — Young trees manured produce large fruit. 



Mr. Hammond said the Red June was furnished with numerous 

 fibrous roots, hence manures had a more immediate effect with this tree, 

 while with the Bellfiower the roots run farther. 



Mr. Spitze — If Red June trees are mulched and properly managed 

 they produce good apples. 



Mr. Johnson had seen fine specimens in this locality. 



Mr. Hoff's communication was referred to a committee of Messrs. 

 Spitze, Hathaway and Hammond, for subsequent report. 



President Hammond said he would plant three or four hundred 

 apple trees in the spring for profit, and wanted the members to tell him 

 what to plant. 



Of course the members took pity on him ; he has three or four thou- 

 sand trees in bearing, and his experience was so limited in horticulture, it 

 was unanimously agreed to advise him. He was also referred to the forth- 

 coming essay on that subject at the next regular meeting, when the point 

 in question comes up for discussion. 



Mr. Johnson inquired, what of the Wythe apple? 



President Hammond gave its history. Last season the original tree 

 bore thirty bushels. It is a late bloomer, the fruit a good keeper, and first 

 rate apple. 



Dr. Hay wanted to know the experiences had with the Rambo, Pry- 

 or's Red and Red Astrachan. 



Mr. Walker said, in his father's old orchard Rambo did well for 

 eight or ten years ; as the trees got old, the fruit was smaller, and there 

 was a tendency in trees to decay. 



J. S. Johnson said that his Pryor's Red and Rambo trees, planted in 

 1859, had a tendency to die out and drop their apples. 



President Hammond — Red Astrachan bears only every other year ; 

 fruit tender in handling, salable and profitable. Sops of Wine was a good 

 early apple. Pryor's Red had not done well with him ; the trees were 

 injured by the cold winter. 



Mr. Hathaway spoke of trees of twenty years old being in their 

 prime. 



