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Ellsworth — Have had it three years, plants do well, fruit has not answered expecta- 

 tions, fruit small. 



Wier — Productive, smallish. 



McAfee — Produced this year, found compared with Wilson, bore more herries of 

 about equal size, planted all at same time and soil — loess soil. 



Dr. Nicaise — Ellsworth asked for information. 



Wier — Have had two years a few large specimens of good quality, consider it worth 

 trial. 



McAfee — Coincided with it. 



Ellsworth— The same on short trial. 



Cramer — Wier finds it a pistillate plant berry small, dark, for table l)erry far better; 

 to market will not sell, color and size against it; for canning it is superior; firm in 

 flesh. 



Budd— In Iowa acts like Russell, when fertilized gives good results^ fruit about like 

 Green Prolific. 



Edwards — Fruit small, plant hardy, quality good, productive. 



Wier — In picking fruit last season found strawberries piled up through the field in 

 small piles equal to }£ the crop. 



Napoleon 3d. C. C. Miller — Have thousands of plants with no fruit,will sell at $1 each 

 to repay me for experiments. 



* ' Peaks Emi^eror. ' ' 



Colfax — Pistillate, of medium size not very productive. 



Van Epps— Thanked the society for hokling there session and inviting them to Dixon 

 for future meetings. 



-V;". President and Gentlemen of the Northern Illinois Horticultural Society : 



In behalt' of the citizens of Dixon, we feel to retuni to you oiu- sincere tlia,nks for having held your 

 tliird annual session in this city, and now at your adjournment we would extend to you a cordial and 

 standing invitation to return to our midst at the return of your annual or other like calls of your 

 hody, as may meet j'our pleasure, believing the seed here sown will bear fruit abundantly . And, if in 

 your wisdom, you should at any time deem this city a suitable place for holding an exhibtion of 

 horticulture, we pledge the hospiialities of the citizens, and will hold ourselves in readiness to meet 

 any and all requirements, knowing your members to be a reasonable people. 



Wier — Had some seedlings second summer, given the culture through the season in 

 order to find how many fruit buds could be produced at that age — one had fifteen — all 

 were allowed to raake one runner. 



McAfee — A friend in Freeport kept oti' runners producing immense heads of plants 

 with numerous fruit buds. The Spring was a beautiful sight had not a single good 

 sized fruit, fully one half of buds producing no fruit; what is the matter. The Wilson 

 goes to work in the Spring and produces runners and then stops, does not make the 

 second growth of runners that many of the newer varieties do. Had severe rains, but 

 otlier buds, not so treated, fruited vvell. 



Wier — Apples often produce much more bloom than they can perfect, is rare to find 

 over seven fruit buds where the runners are kept ofl" and three where not. 



U. J. Duulap— Stated that any person who would try to cultivate strawberries on 

 the hill will make a failure. 



Hathaway — Difier from Dunlap; am an advocate of hill culture; my method is to 

 cultivate 3 or 3i feet apart, and 2 feet in hill, cultivate with horse. 



