8 Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. 



Mr. Tattle — Well, I don't know. I thought I had a good 

 orchard. The Fameuse are played out. They look: worse 

 than they did last year. I do not know of having seen any 

 orchard on the road that I have corns here on. I have seen 

 none that begin to look like mine. I had five hundred Pewau- 

 kee trees and not one single one of them lived but what is 

 and so with the whole list right through. Of six trees of 

 hurt, the St. Lawrence I have five that are all right. The 

 Duchess trees, of course, are all right. Now if there is any 

 worse place than mine I would like to see it. 



It was now proposed to open a discussion on currants, al- 

 though Mr. Stickney was not yet present; Mr. Pilgrim said 

 that Mr. Stickney would be here for the evening session or 

 the next morning. 



Mr. Hoxie — I think Mr. Pilgrim could tell us something 

 about currants. 



Mr. Pilgrim — Do you want me to tell you something 

 about Mr. Stickney's currants? I have been through my sec- 

 tion of the country this spring, in different localities and 

 failed to find amongst the farmers in general, scarcely a 

 currant bush remaining in the gardens. This spring in par- 

 ticular they were grubbed up, pulled up and burned up. 

 They have given up raising currants. Our friend, Stick- 

 ney, in place of giving up, is gouig right in and planting 

 by wholesale. I would not dare to say how many he has 

 on his premises in the village of Wauwatosa, but on his 

 farm, four or five miles from the village, he has four or five 

 acres of bushes of the Long Cluster, and so on. I never saw 

 anythink look better than they are, and his. bushes to 

 home are loaded with fruit, and he is expecting a big har- 

 vest, now that is as far as I know. I heard Mr. Stickney 

 making a remark about his Duchess orchard, say that he 

 didn't think he had a sound tree in his orchard. We heard 

 from Mr. Tutfcle that this was his best. The tree is troubled 

 by a bug or something else that gouges the apples. 



Mr. Tuttle — The reason that he does not grow them is that 

 in that locality he can grow something better. 



Mr. Phillips — Can you tell us how he has succeeded in 

 his currants, and by what means? 



