248 ILLINOIS STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



MORE MISTAKES. 



The President called for a continuation of the list of mistakes in 

 fruit growing. 



Mr. Hausen — My mistake was in planting too many varieties.* 

 Mr. Woodard had handled too many Miner plums. 



Dr. Pennington — It seems to me this relation of unfavorable expe- 

 riences is a good thing ; the recital of mistakes may be profitable ; but I 

 cannot now say which, out of a great many, was my worst mistake. I cam.e 

 near losing my orchard by plowing it in June, in one of our dryest sea- 

 sons, when the soil was hard and baked. As to sending out and planting 

 too great a variety, it was a general mistake in early times, but is being 

 abandoned of late years ; the lists of fruits are being contracted. 



Dr. P. also spoke of pruning in the apple orchard, and recommended 

 a moderate annual pruning, but not sufficient to produce a growth of 

 suckers or "water sprouts." 



Mr. Brubacker — The great mistake I made in orchard planting, on 

 my soil, was in not planting more freely of Jonathan and Yellow Bell- 

 flower, they succeed so well with me. 



Dr. Pennington — Another of my mistakes was in planting and rec- 

 ommending the Yellow Bellflower, as it is unprofitable with me, even 

 when trees are old. 



REPORT ON LIST OF SMALL FRUITS. 



The Committee of List of Small Fruits presented the following : 



Your committee to recommend a list of small fruits as worthy of 

 cultivation, while convinced that the soil exerts a vast influence on most 

 species and varieties, especially of the strawberry, would present the fol- 

 lowing as the most generally valuable varieties for Northern Illinois: 



Strawberries. — Wilson's Albany, Green Prolific, Boyden's No. 30, 

 Michigan Seedling, Kentucky and Col. Cheney. 



Raspberries. — Doolittle, Mammoth Cluster, Davison's Thornless, 

 Philadelphia and Purple Cane. 



Blackberries. — Your committee knows of no blackberry which they 

 can be justified in recommending; the older sorts having failed and the 

 newer ones not having been sufficiently tested. 



* Mr. Hausen had fifty-five varieties of winter apples on exhibition at the meeting. See report of 

 Committee on Fruits. — Sec. 



