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Member: Have you the Crosby? 



Professor Fulton: Yes, tliey fruit vei'y well, but it is not so hardy. 

 It is a pretty good peach, if it is well thinned, but it has an inclination 

 to gi'ow too small. 



Member. How about the Elberta? 



Professor Huston: The Elberta does fine. It ripens early in Septem- 

 ber. 



Member: How about the Snead? 



Professor Huston: The Snead, we do not lilie. It comes in earlier 

 than the Alexander. It is small, delicate of texture and hard to handle; 

 it might do well for the local market. 



Member: The Greenboro? 



Professor Pulton: It comes in Avith the early , and is 



about as tender as the early — . 



Member: How about the Champion? 



Professor Fulton: It is a large white peach with a- red cheek. It has 

 not fruited very Avell for us. In the lower States it has fruited remark- 

 ably well, and where it bears well, with the right kind of handling, it 

 would be first rate. It is a fine peach. With us, however, it has been a 

 rather shy bearer, and it is tender. 



President Hobbs: In our locality it is very hardy, and is of a large 

 size. 



Mr. Johnson: In regard to the Champion, I want to say that the only 

 objection I have to it is that the trees break down. 



Professor Hobbs: That is due to careless thinning. 



Member: How about the Cling? 



Professor Fulton: As a general thing they are not very much raised. 

 Sometimes we have a cnll for them, special ordei's. 



Professor Latta: If you can give me from five to seven minutes with- 

 out infringing on anothei^s time, I would like to say a few words. You 

 know that in my work I shall be going out over the State more this winter 

 than heretofore. As I have gone over the State I have been impressed 

 with this fact— I may be wrong— but that is why I ask the question— that 

 our orchards, especially on the farms, are not considered as a commercial 

 enterprise, and are neglected shamefully. The average farm orchard, 

 to me, is nlost unsightly. It makes me heartsick to see the old orchards 



