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Prof. Lodeman: I Bprayed apples six times with Bordeaux mixture that was much 

 stronger than for peaches. 



Prof. Green: It will hurt some varieties more than others, Belmont particularly, 

 which we can only spray twice. 



Mr. Campbell: Could not the injury done to the foliage by use of the ammoniacal 

 solution have been prevented by diluting? 



Prof. Beach: The experiments which have been tried with the ammoniacal solution 

 show that where it is used the foliage, as a rule, is not of as healthy a color and in as 

 good condition as under the Bordeaux treatment. The latter really helps the foliage. 

 I do not know that the solution could have been weakened to any extent that it would 

 not have been injurious to the foliage. 



Mr. Campbell: Have you used the modified eau celeste? 



Prof. Beach: Not to any extent in my work, because when I first began the experi- 

 ments conducted by others showed that it was really inferior to the Bordeaux mixture. 



Mr. Campbell: I have understood that it was very nearly as good as the Bordeaux 

 mixture and pleasanter to use because of the trouble in mixing the lime. 



Prof. Beach: I want to recommend what I consider best. 



RAMBLING THOUGHTS ON HORTICULTURAL SUBJECTS. 



BY HON. J. H. hale, SOUTH GLASTONBURY, CONN. 



[Stenographically reported by the Secbetaby.J 



Coming here last year I felt more than ever before, what big souled, broad minded? 

 whole hearted people horticulturists were — above any other class I have come in con- 

 tact with. Work among trees and plants and flowers broadens a man's soul and mind, 

 and makes him a better citizen in every way. Our plants and trees and flowers and 

 vines, it seems to me, seem to know and understand that, and respond more readily to 

 the care of a man who knows and believes in them. I think those of us who are in 

 horticultural work, — first, because we love and enjoy and believe in it, are the ones 

 who get the most out of life — not wholly in cash returns, although the money is valu- 

 able. No one has a right to waste the God-given energies in following even a burden. 

 The man who gets pleasure out of his daily work is the one who is getting the most 

 out of life, and the one, also, who is likely to get the best financial results. 



This thought of the heart and soul of a man being in his work should be considered 

 in the employment of our help. We make a mistake in employing men who have no 

 love in their work. The man who works only for his dollar is only on a par with the 

 old horee or mule. I have found that to secure men who have a love for the business 

 is economy, even though we pay them more. I have employed men from different sec- 

 tions of the world who have settled down in our New England work. When we cannot 

 get natives, the Italians are making us the best horticultural laborers. They seem to 

 have had some experience in their native land and to possess a natural love for horti- 

 culture. I have found them intelligent, industrious and polite. We furnish comfort- 

 able cabins for them in the back part of the farm, with bunks and straw for beds, fire 

 wood, etc., and find them the most peaceable men I have ever employed, and loving 

 their work. They board themselves, living very economically, eating brown bread and 

 drinking some of their native wines. Then, too, the man who loves his work, handles 

 everything more carefully. I like a man who is so enthusiastic in his work that he 

 feels just as if every tree he approaches was saying " Good morning " to him. He feels 

 that he knows his trees and plants and vines; he learns to love them, is careful not to 

 injure them, and in gathering and packing fruit feels as much interest in their safe 

 arrival in the market as though they were relatives whom he was starting off on a long 

 journey. 



I was pleased with that part of Mr. Garfield's paper which spoke in regard to trees 

 and care of cemeteries. The only place for such men as he describes is under the 

 ground. There are too many who start out in horticultural lines because they see 

 others making money, failure follows, and then they see something else, take it up for 

 a brief spell, and then drop it. And so they are continually making failures because 

 they have no real soul in their work, and are simply striving after the money part. 



