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Dr. Hull — I dont want it, because it is possible to get better fruit. 

 Motion lost. 



Carolina Red June — Mr. Wier — I move that Carolina Red June be 

 stricken from the list, for market and family use in the North. 



Mr. Earle — I move as an amendment, that it be also stricken from the 

 list for market in the South. 



Mr. Wier accepted the amendment. On the trees he had there has 

 been no fruit fit for any use for years. The first year they bore fair- 

 ly, and then they seemed to lose their vigor, and the next and subse- 

 quent 3'eai'8 bore none at all. 



Mr. Nelson — I saw some trees in my neighborhood, where a man 

 had budded Eed June into Yellow Bellefleur and produced fine samples. 

 He told me it had borne three years, and he thought it had shown as 

 good as the best. 



Mr. Foster — I do not fully understand one of the remarks of Mr. 

 Wier — that the trees lost their vigor. 



The President — I wish to know whether he meant that the variety 

 had deteriorated constitutionally — whether it was in old trees or 

 young — or whether he meant that particular trees had lost their 

 vigor. 



Mr. Wier — I mean that the variety has lost its constitutional vigor. 



Mr. Foster — I speak directly to this point. Mr. Eichard told me 

 that he had raised good Eed Junes by cultivating the ground, and 

 that he admired the Eed June. 



Mr. Shephard — It is in my neighborhood, and it is very popular. 

 I have never ascertained that there was any advantage in cultivating 

 it. It is very fine in appearance, but unless you have it in very good 

 ground, and give it good cultivation, it will soon over-bear itself. 

 But, there is a prime objection in another aspect — it will take three 

 of the Early June to be as big as one of the Eed Astrachan. It is 

 small and it is scabby, and in many cases you could not see the red 

 unless you had a microscope. 



