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Ri;rt)RT OF COMMITTEE ON PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Your committee heartily concur in asking for a law providing that 

 all fruits be sold by weight, instead of by the l>ox, which means something 

 of the size of a piece of chalk. And while not fully sympathizing with 

 the alarmists in their gloomy forebodings for the future on account of the 

 destruction of our forests, we would respectfully call the attention of the 

 people to the clause in this address relating to the planting of trees for the 

 farm and other purposes. 



And we also heartily concur in the feeling that the " new management 

 of the Industrial University calls for our earnest sympathies," and we 

 fully believe that the Illinois State Horticultural Society ec/// encourage 

 its endeavors to be of practical value to the great interest of horticulture. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



L. C. FRAiNCIS, ) 



A. A. HILLIARD, - Committee. 



S. G. MINKLER, ) 



DISCUSSION ON SMALL FRUITS. 

 BLACKBERRIES. 



Mr. Galusha — I presume most of you have had experience, and 

 those who have not would be glad to get information as to whether the 

 Kittatinny blackberry is hardy and reliable for a crop. We have dropped 

 the Lawton and Wilson to plant the Kittatinny. I have two or three 

 acres of it, but I must say I have never had a full crop of berries from it 

 yet, owing to injury by the winter. This season a very few shoots from 

 very low down, produced fruit, but nothing to be called a crop at all. 

 Last year perhaps fifty or sixty bushes were loaded, while all the others 

 had less than half a crop. If it does not do better, after trying it another 

 year, I shall root it out. I know it to be hardier than the Lawton or Wil- 

 son, but it does not produce well with me, so far. 



Mr. Flagg — It has, with us, been pronounced a success. They all 

 prefer it to any other blackberry they have tried. This year it bore a 

 small crop of fruit, and neither the Lawton, nor the Wilson, nor the wild 

 blackberry, did any thing. 



Mr. Galusha — The berry is very much superior to others for family 

 use; when you can get it it is delicious. 



Mr. Scofield — Last winter my plants were killed to the ground, and 

 the roots were black so that I thought they never would sprout ; but they 

 did, though. If you plant them once you will never need to plant them 

 again. I have a row of Lawton that has not failed to bear for the last five 



