PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



WARSAW HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



FOR THE YEAR 1883. 



Reported for publication by J. T. JOHNSON, Secretary. 



The January meeting of the Warsaw Horticultural Society was 

 held on the 24th, with a full attendance of memhers and officers. 



The reports of standing committees for 1882 being called for, 

 J. T. Johnson, chairman of the orchard committee, reported as fol- 

 lows: The season was very unfavorable for both the health and 

 fruitfulness of orchards, the fruit being inainly cut off by spring 

 frosts and the trees seriously injured by long continued wet. He 

 had occasionally seen an orchard bearing a fair crop of fruit, while 

 others near by were bare. One of his neighbors had a healthy, well 

 cultivated peach orchard that produced nothing, while others appar- 

 ently not so likely to bear, were quite full. He would not undertake 

 to account for these freaks. He said fruit trees went into winter 

 quarters in good condition, but feared the effects of excessive cold. 

 He thought peach buds were killed. 



A. C. Hammond said peach buds were killed early in December, 

 and he feared the excessive cold of the last week had killed the trees. 

 The mercury sank to 30° below zero in some places, and he thought 

 this would kill peach trees to the snow line. Cherry trees were 

 badly injured last season, and he thought the present winter would 

 finish them. The only apparent injury to apple trees has been the 

 splitting of the trunks by frost. He thinks the present indications 

 point to a bountiful apple crop. 



