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•others nearer the ground. The best protection of the bodies of the 

 trees from rabbits is woven wire encircling the trunk. Would not 

 plant young orchards without some protection to the bodies of the 

 trees. 



Mr. Whitney — I would recommend to set apple trees from twen- 

 ty-four to twenty-eight feet npart; No. 20, twenty feet. Never set 

 n tree on an old orchard site if you have new land. Apple trees 

 must have dry feet. Always select dry land for an orchard. Wet 

 ground, gravel land and shale will not do. You cannot raise good 

 apples with wet feet. High land is not always dry land. 



Prof. Budd — Tetofsky does best on wet places. Early Rich- 

 mond cherry have failed mostly by injury in the stem. In Rus- 

 sia they have adopted the cherry bush, not a tree, resembling a 

 currant bush. They plant them very close together, and as it is not 

 a bush variety they cut them down to the ground at one year old. 

 This causes them to send up several steins, and they keep them cut 

 back to four or five feet. Their cherries all failed in tree form, and 

 they were obliged to adopt this bush form. In the Province of Lati- 

 mer, Russia, they ship train loads of fruit from these cherry 

 bushes. 



Mr. Scott — I am inclined to think that tlie life of the Early 

 Richmond here is from fourteen to eighteen years. I don't know 

 whether the trouble is in the stem or top. When the tree reaches 

 a certain age it dies, the same as a man when he reaches the end of 

 his life. 



Mr. Woodard moved that the discussion be deferred until to- 

 morrow morning, and that we now adjourn, which motion pre- 

 vailed. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION. 



Meeting called to order by President Barnard. On motion of 

 Mr. Scott, G. J. Kellogg, Rev. Minier and Prof. Budd were made 

 honorary members. 



The Chair called the attention of the members to some trans- 

 vers cuts of apple wood lying on the table from fifteen or twenty 

 varieties, which showed by discoloration the relative hardiness of 



