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alarmed, at the gravity of affairs. And if I have advanced an idea 

 that will set you thinking or make a move in the direction of 

 "human culture/' I will be well repaid for the time I have taken. 



OCTOBER MEETING. 



The October meeting of the Warsaw Horticultural Society was 

 held in the Society's room on the 19th with a good attendance of 

 members present. President Brown called the meeting to order, and 

 suggested the election of a secretary 2)ro tem. On motion, Mr. Den- 

 nis was called to that office. 



VEGETABLES. 



Mr. Hoppe — The season has been very trying on garden veget- 

 ables. Potatoes, cabbage and tomatoes less than half a crop. Celery 

 nearly a failure. This is one of the vegetables that can scarcely be 

 grown in such hot dry seasons as the past one. Salsify is growing 

 in favor with me. If properly cooked it is one of our most delicious 

 vegetables. 



Mr. Berry — The only way I can raise potatoes these hot, dry 

 seasons, is by making the soil very rich and planting early. Early 

 Rose and Early Ohio are my favorites. 



ORCHARDS. 



Mr. Leeper — I have a few apples this year, possibly sixty bush- 

 els, but do not think 1 can find more than four or five perfect speci- 

 mens in a bushel. My trees are healthy and well furnished with 

 fruit buds for next year's crop. T mulched a portion of my orchard 

 last spring with benefit. 



Mr. Emerson — I visited Mr. Rockwell's orchard a short time 

 ago and found some of his young trees bearing a fair crop which was 

 remarkably high colored; but I could scarcely find a perfect speci- 

 men. My own orchard set well, but the fruit dropped badly, and 

 little remained on the trees at picking tifce. I plant my trees twelve 

 or fourteen inches deeper than they grow in the nursery, keep grass 

 and weeds away from them and have no trouble with borers. 



