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gardeners as to the appearance and work of our insect pests — either 

 old or new — during the year 1886, in order to assist in the careful 

 and thorough investigation of this imi)ortant subject by our State 

 Entomologist. Mr. Johnson asked special attention to this subject 

 this year, and said reports could be nnide either direct with the en- 

 tomologist, or through the meetings of the Warsaw Horticultural 

 Society. 



C. N. Dennis laid before the meeting a correspondence, in which 

 Secretary N. J. Colman, Department of Agriculture, Washington ^ 

 D. C, expresses some doubts as to the committee of agriculture of 

 the house reporting in favor of the $10,000 item of the general ap- 

 propriation for the establishment and maintenance of the proposed 

 division of pomology, unless action is taken in our home societies 

 and our representatives asked, by letter, to urge its adoption and pas- 

 sage. 



By a vote it was unanimously ordered to forward such letters. 



ORCHARDS. 



T. F. Leeper — I have been pruning this month. I find na 

 fresh injury from the winter; in fact, my peach trees show no fresh 

 harm done the wood, and I can not say that all the peach buds are 

 destroyed. The situation at present is such that we may get a par- 

 tial crop of peaches from sound trees in favored localities. We are 

 likely to have a full bloom of the apple, and anticipate a fair crop of 

 that standard fruit. Our coldest weather came on favorably and has 

 done us no material injury. We have also escaped the usual injury 

 from both mice and rabbits. 



H. D. Brown — T have weeded out and replanted what unsound 

 trees were found in my orchard, and have all in good condition. My 

 apple trees of bearing age were never in better prospect for a crop. 



W. W. Chittenden — What are the conditions tliat cause one 

 tree to fail to produce a crop, as they do, and often after a full 

 blooming? And what are the conditions that injure our trees or 

 vines in winter, or which kill them outright? Is it the great degree 

 of cold? I deny that cold ever kills the apple or the berry bushes in 

 this latitude, if the trees and ])ushes are in fair condition to resist 

 cold. In this latitude the conditions are responsible for this whole 



