68 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



SECOND DAY — Afternoon. 



Called to order at 1:50 p. m. by Vice-President, Milo Barnard, 



Secretary — Mr. President: The Society has passed a resolution 

 to visit Normal University in a body, and as there is a general desire 

 by the members to inspect that institution, and a large number who 

 are going home in the morning are particularly anxious to do so this 

 afternoon, I move that we adjourn for that purpose. 



Samuel Edwards, Dr. Sanborn, and several others, expressed 

 themselves unfavorable to adjourning the Society, on account of the 

 great anjount of business before it, and the motion was withdrawn. 



Samuel Edwards — I think we can spend a short time very prof- 

 itably in further discussing the subject before us yesterday — the 

 kind of land on which to plant an orchard. From the evidence of 

 many members given here, it would appear that orchards planted on 

 low lands were doing much better than on high lands. Our horti- 

 cultural fathers taught us that high, rolling land was the best loca- 

 tion for an orchard, but the facts brought out here do not sustain 

 that theory. I planted my first orchard on flat land, the second on 

 higher and dryer land. The first has been the most productive. I 

 am of the opinion that on these dry locations trees suffer from our 

 severe drouths, which unfit them for enduring the severity of our 

 winters. ^ 



Prof. Budd — As I said yesterday, I consider this more a matter 

 of condition of soil than one of elevation. We have tracts of land 

 called Loes formation, that are very favorable for tree growth. On 

 this kind of soil, varieties of the grade of hardiness of Baldwin, 

 Jonathan, and Wagener escaped injury last winter, while on river 

 bottoms they were killed. 



J. M. Robison — The condition of soil goes very largely with 

 the elevation. In the southern part of the State it is unprofitable to 

 plant on the narrow bottoms, but on the prairie the difference in ele- 

 vation is slight, and we find the most favorable conditions of soil on 

 the flat lands. 



Parker Earle — Mr. Robison, would you prefer the high land or 

 the low, provided the conditions of soil are the same? 



