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MR. MOON: I do not see that I can add anything of interest to 

 what has been read. I heartily coincide and agree with the views 

 advanced. It has been our experience to travel miles for scions from 

 good types of fruits and trees. 



The PRESIDENT: There is no doubt that the bud or scion, in a 

 measure, controls the root, hence it is important to get them from 

 healthy stock and true to name. I would regard the cutting of buds 

 and scions year after year from nursery rows as not only careless, 

 but criminal. There may be local conditions affecting trees; but con- 

 ceding all that, I prefer taking buds as far as practicable from well- 

 established types of bearing trees. It is my theory also that by care- 

 ful selections from bearing trees we are likely to produce more :md 

 earlier fruit. Ifhis is not always practical in large commei cial 

 nurseries, but, where possible, it should be done. 



The following address Avas delivered: 



BEAUTIFI CATION OF WASTE PLACES. 



By S. Mexdelson Meehan, Germantoivn, PhUadtlpMa. 



It is mj intention to at once dispel any impression you may have 

 that I am going into the mysteries of landscape gardening, to name 

 a lot of rules you should follow, and give other specific advice, or 

 that I intend naming lists of desirable plants, describing their 

 merits, etc. Such things are details that should be worked out to fit 

 the individual needs. But rather, I wish to reveal some common op- 

 portunities by which we may brighten our lives through the medium 

 of Dame Nature and as students of ornamental plant life. There 

 is no question but that all country and suburban places have their 

 waste ijlaces; waste because they have either had all the beauty 

 crow^ded out of them or have been utterly neglected. 



A dwelling-place should be made a home in every sense of the 

 word. The grounds immediately surrounding the house and beyond 

 should be made attractive and lovely to those who ]\xe right on the 

 spot. But then we must think of others, too. We want to please 



