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stage it'hsEs reached tlic length of three-eighths of an inch, it again falls 

 to the grouod, to emerge in time to attack the plums. 



" This statement varies much from the description given by most ^ 

 Horticultural writers ; but I have long observed its habits, and that, 

 too, very closely, as without great care and precaution I should every 

 year lose my plums entirely. I also present for exhibition a branch 

 cut from one of my trees, showing the eggs deposited by the insect. 



George P. Pfeffer." 



Second best exhibition of good plums ; Cyrus Hawley, Milwaukee. 

 Transactions. 



" These plums arc Coe's Golden Drop. The tree upon which they 

 grew was planted in its present location in the year 1848, at which time 

 the trunk was about two inches in diameter. The soil is a stiff clay. 

 For i planting the tree, a hole was dug four feet in diameter, and two 

 1^ feet N^eep, and filled up with a compost of two-thirds muck, and one- 

 third of well rotted manui-e, to which six shovels full of leached ashes 

 were added. It has received no cultivation since, except last autumn, 

 when a dressing of well rotted manure was applied about the roots. 

 This tree has almost entirely escaped the attack of the curculio, while I 

 have lost the entire crop of some other varieties in my garden, such as 

 Kniglit's Green Drying, Huling's Superb, &c. The Jefferson growing 

 in the same garden was not attacked at all, and the Imperial Gage bul 

 slio-htly. Gyrus Hawley." 



Third best exhibition of good plums ; Alfred L. Castlcman, M. D., Del- 



aficld. ^1. 



" These Autumn Gage Plums Avere gathered from two trees, one 

 oTOwing in a garden walk, and the other in a deep, rich bed of aspara- 

 o-us. I see no difference in the fruit of the two trees, except that the 

 tree in the asparagus bed has borne nearly three times the amount borne 

 by the other. Alfred L. Castlemak." 



GRAPES. 



For the best exhibition of good grapes ; E. S. Turner, Grafton. Tho- 

 mas' Fruits. 



For the second best exhibition of good grapes ; Wm. Le Fevre, Lake. 

 Transactions. 



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