314 ILLINOIS STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Riehl — The gentleman asks how I catch curculios. He says 

 he has never seen a tree upon which the curculio catcher has been 

 run that was healthy. If he will come to my place, I will show him trees 

 from which I have taken the curculio for two years, and I will defy him 

 to find any injury therefrom upon the trees. We no longer run the old 

 wheelbarrow curculio catcher. All that is needed to jar down the insect 

 is a mallet, covered with a double thickness of sheepskin. A sudden tap 

 on the body and limbs of a tree leads the insect to suppose that a bird is 

 near, ready to gobble him up, and he instantly drops and is caught on the 

 sheet. 



Mr. Stewart thought a sudden shake of the tree would bring down 

 the '' little turk," and was preferable to the mallet. 



Mr. Riehl thought not. The sheepskin-covered mallet was the 

 thing. 



Mr. Stewart thought the Little Damson the most profitable plum. 

 It would sell for more than the Chickasaw. 



Dr. Long inquired why he spoke of the Little Damson. He thought 

 there was but one variety of the Damson. 



Mr. Stewart — I have seen what I call two varieties of Damson 

 plums — one large and the other small. 



The Doctor thought cultivation made the difference in size. 



Mr. Hollister did not see a great deal of money in plums of the 

 Chickasaw family. When other fruit is plenty they sell for little or noth- 

 ing, and last year it was really difficult to get perfect plums — plums that 

 were not injured by the curculio. 



QUINCES. 



Mr. Stewart spoke of the quince as one of the neglected fruits that 

 was worthy of cultivation, for the money and the good that was in it. 



Col. Fulkerson inquired particularly about the cultivation of the 

 quince. 



Dr. Long recommended a moist situation, western exposure, on 

 ground a little shaded. He did not find the growing of quinces for 

 market profitable, but for jelly they were good — nothing better. But if 

 you want them in perfection, they must be ripe, and then they are not 

 suitable to carry to market without injury. 



The idea of growing quinces, or anything, in the shade of something 

 else provoked the indignation of Mr. Riehl, and he let out on the Doctor 



