;[40 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLLNOIS ' 



Mr. Freeman — It takes five years to lest new varieties, before we 

 can recommend them. 



Mr. Flagg — We do not recommend any thing. We only discuss 

 their merits as they are known. 



Mr. Daggy — To change the subject somewhat, 1 wish to say, I 

 think it would be well, if* peach growers would put the indifferent fruit 

 upon the cracks of the boxes, so as to protect the good ones inside. 

 The railroad men will, you know, sometimes get their fingers in. (Laugh- 

 ter ) 



Mr. Galusha — Pack them the same way that Mr. Daggy does his 

 apples. (Laughter.) 



Mr. Wier — I am very fond of peaches myself. But I only bought 

 two or three boxes the past season, for the reason that I could not get 

 peaches that were fit to eat. Another year, I think I shall order from 

 headquarters. (From Alton .-* Reporter^ 



I can buy peaches upon the market, such as they are, but they are 

 not worth a cent. They look well on the outside, many of them, but 

 within is rottemiess. 



Mr. Raymond — In Springfield I know the Alton peaches have a 

 good reputation ; if the box has on it the Alton brand, it will pass. (Cheers.) 



Mr. ScoFiELD — I think we had alrnost no good box of peaches last 

 year. When I can get good peaches 1 buy one box a day for family use ; 

 as it was this year I did not get but two boxes that were fit to eat. 



Voice — Send to Alton for your peaches. 



Dr. Hooton scored that class of shippers who " make clean only 

 the outside," as well as those buyers who don't know a good peach and 

 judge only by the color of the tarlatan cover. He believed that in this 

 matter of packing fruit for market, " honesty is the best policy." 



Mr. Daggy followed in the same strain and declared that if ship- 

 pers did not send better peaches, they would after a while get no sale 

 for any. 



Mr. Wier — Some four years ago I helped this Society to perpetrate 

 the grandest /rawrt' of the season. We recommended to gentlemen that 

 they put their name on the packages of fruit that were shipped by them. 



Mr. Earle — I don't see how that was fraud. 



Mr. Wier — In this way. It went out that any box bearing the 

 shipper's name was guaranteed. I bought peaches thus branded, in good 



