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Third — Plant orchards without thought of failure. Give the tree 

 peddler, with his gaudy pictures and wonderful specimens, his iron- 

 clad apples, curculio-proof plum and Russian apricots, a short answer 

 but go to your nearest reliable nurseryman and get the varieties that 

 are known to succeed in your locality without regard to reputed 

 hardiness, and you will grow just as many, and just as good, apples 

 as you did twenty-five years ago. 



NOVEMBER MEETING. 



The November meeting of the Warsaw Horticultural Society 

 was held in Hamilton on ^^-^ednesday, the 16th, with President Brown 

 in the chair. 



The question of enriching and cultivating the orchard and com- 

 bating insects seemed to be prominent in the minds of all present^ 

 and the opinion was generally expressed that the time had come 

 when the codling moth must be poisoned, the borer looked after twice 

 a year, and the soil brought up to a higher state of fertility if we 

 would grow fine, handsome marketable fruit. 



Messrs. Gates, Ash, and Rockwell were greatly interested in the 

 subject of sprajing fruit trees with arsenical poisons to destroy insects, 

 and desiring to get at all the facts, asked Mr. Hammond if it was 

 not possible that his exceptional crop of apples referred to at the last 

 meeting could be attributed to some other cause. A heavy crop of 

 clover had been left on the ground as a mulch through the severe 

 drouth, and might not this be a partial explanation? 



Mr. Hammond — The fact that so large a proportion of the 

 apples in the sprayed orchards were perfect, and in adjoining orchards 

 scarcely a perfect specimen could be found, seems to be conclusive 

 evidence that the poison killed the insects and saved the fruit. 



There seemed to be a very general agreement that the late dis- 

 asters to apple-trees was mainly caused by double cropping the land 

 and starving the trees, and that the only road to success was by en- 

 riching the soil with barnyard manure, plowing under green crops, or 

 allowing clover to grow and remain uncut on the ground, which an- 

 swers the double purpose of mulch and manure. 



