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cur climate, yet they are nearly all more subject to blight than 

 our Stacdards. 



Mr. Philip?, of "West Salem, had not at first regarded blight as 

 contagious, but more recently had seen it developed under such 

 circumstances as to lead him to change in regard to it. Whit- 

 ney's No. 20 is recommended as not being subject to blight, and 

 Mr. Whitney says it is entirely free from it on his own ground. 

 But at West Salem, when set in adjoining rows to Peck's Pleas- 

 ant, which were affected with blight, No. 20 was struck with it 

 too. Not in one instance alone, but in a number. Other trees are 

 affected in the same manner, as the Wealthy, which only blights 

 when standing near trees that are subject to it. 



The noon hour had arrived and cut short the discussion, and 

 the society adjourned until 2 o'clock P. M. 



AFTEENOOX Session. — At 2 o'clock P. M. the convention was 

 called to order by the president. A general desire was expressed 

 to have a speech from Senator W. T. Price, who was present. 

 The senator said he must decline to respond to the request. He 

 came there to leatn of others, not to impart information ; he felt a 

 good deal of interest in the cultivation of fruit and flowers and 

 in other horticultural subjects, but practically he knew very little 

 about them. They were not themes on which he could speak 

 with understanding or profit. He was familiar and might talk on 

 saw logs, but they had no sort of connection with horticulture, and 

 hence anything he might say in regard to them would not be 

 appropriate to the occasion. 



Mr. Stickney thought that in one phase of the question the 

 subject of saw logs was intimately connected with horticulture, 

 and agriculture also, for, if the general belief is correct, and the 

 history of other countries seem to prove that it is, that the cutting 

 off of our heavy timber will bring about such climatic changes as 

 to seriously diminish the productiveness of our cultivated land, 

 then this is an important question, and one of special interest to 

 us. The question of the timber supply fifty or one hundred years 

 hence is a serious one. At the rate that our heavy timber land was 

 now being cleared, there will soon be a scarcity, not of pine alone, 



