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expect to have about a fourth of a crop. Trees are healthy and are 

 making a wonderful growth. 



Mr. Hammond — The situation in ray orchard has been described 

 by Mr. Leeper. Trees over ten or twelve years of age that fruited 

 last year have no fruit, but young trees are quite full. Insects are 

 unusually numerous, and I fear that they will reduce the fruit crop 

 to a very small per cent, of an average. The curculio has already 

 left its mark on numerous specimens, and the leaf roller is feeding 

 upon the young fruit. I am making arrangements to spray my 

 orchard with -a poisonous solution for the purpose of destroying these 

 pests, as well as the codling moth, which is just beginning its work. 



Mr. Rockwell — Nearly all the trees that have died in my orchard 

 have been killed by borers. I think an examination will show that 

 many of the trees supposed to be winter killed have been girdled by 

 borers. They seem to do most of their work in trees growing on 

 thin soil. 



Mr. Berry — At the last meeting of the Central Illinois Horti- 

 cultural Society, Dr. Humphrey said that the disturbance of the 

 planetary system had been disastrous to animal and vegetable life, 

 and, by causing unusual meterological phenomena, had injuriously 

 affected the fruit interests. We are now about out of perihelion, 

 and if it is true that our late disasters are in any sense due to 

 planetary injfluences, we may take courage and rest assured that 

 similar causes will not occur again for hundreds of years. 1 have of 

 late been investigating this subject, and think with Dr. Humphrey 

 that as we have had the storms and tempests of adversity in our fruit 

 interest we may now look for a series of favorable seasons, when the 

 orchardist will reap a golden harvest. 



BERRIES. 



Mr. Rockwell — Strawberries are looking well and are now be- 

 ginning to ripen. I do not think they will be as abundant as last 

 year. Raspberry canes in the old plantations were injured by the 

 sun last August, but the yield promises to be fair. Snyder black- 

 berries are blooming very full. The best way to manage raspberry 

 and blackberry plantations is to renew them every five or six years. 



Mr. Dennis — I think the injury the canes suffered last summer 

 will reduce the crop of raspberries. The only way to keep a plant- 



