QUESTION BOX 267 



etc. We plan to have three papers read at each meeting, and in addition 

 to our regular papers we also occasionally have a competent speaker on 

 some horticultural subject. As there is no other organization in the 

 school here along any particular line, we rather congratulate ourselves 

 on being the first to start anything of this kind. Thank you. 



The President: I am sure we are mighty glad to hear of this new 

 association here at the State Farm and to know what they are doing. 

 It is a very worthy purpose they have in view and I know our society will 

 be only too glad to co-operate with them and help them in any way we 

 can. 



By motion made and unanimously carried it was voted to make each, 

 member of the "Nebraska Budders" association an Annual Honorary 

 member of the Nebraska State Horticultural Society. 



QUESTION BOX. 



No. I. Why have we lost nearly all of our plum and cherry trees? 



Mr. Marshall: I do not know what killed them, but they were prob- 

 ably troubled with different diseases. There are several causes. One 

 of the principal reasons probably is because some persons, when plant- 

 ing an orchard are always trying to get something for nothing. I think 

 that is the cause of most of the trouble with the tree business. When a 

 person expects to get something for nothing he is usually disappointed. 

 I have noticed that the European plum trees have died where the Amer- 

 ican plums have lived. The European plums seem to be more troubled 

 with what is known as shot-hole fungus, and this is caused principally 

 by neglect and wet weather. If we had a series of good dry years we 

 would not have any of this trouble. We have got to use judgment in 

 this, and have got to study the question out. In the case of cherry trees 

 some varieties kill worse than others. Two or three wet seasons will 

 kill the Early Richmond, and five or six seasons of this kind of weather 

 will kill almost any of the other varieties. 



Mr. Brown: This disease of the cherry trees is one of the things 

 that Prof. Bruner is trying to work out at the present time. To my mind 

 it is no more shot-hole fungus than anything else. As Mr. Marshall says 

 this disease is due to wet weather and also to a poor condition and also 

 due to neglect of orchards. We have sprayed for this disease, but during 

 the three seasons we lost about nine thousand nursery trees. 



A Member: Mr. Chairman, I asked that question because I would 

 like to know what is the cause of this disease. I noticed that the leaves 

 began dropping off the trees about the middle of the summer. I sprayed 

 my trees. 



Mr. Marshall: Spraying would not do any good if the leaves had all 

 fallen off. We did considerable spraying but without any success. We 

 lost a large number of trees away back In 1883 and 1884. It was called 



