PROCEEDINGS OP THE SUMMER MEETING. 77 



Mr. Morrill: Absence of tendency to curl is one element of profitable- 

 ness in Lewis, Gold Drop, Snow's Orange, Beers' Smock, and Stevens' Rare- 

 ripe, when of sufficient age. The latter is an improvement on Stump. Three 

 of these are Michigan seedlings, and that may account in part for their 

 successful resistance to influences of our climate. 



Mr. WiLLARD commended Stevens' Rareripe. 



Mr. Lyon : Some sorts of peach from the south are successful there, like 

 Elberta, and are brought here and set extensively, as though sure to be 

 good. Touch such things lightly at first. 



Mr. Morrill: I have set 1,000 Elberta. I am something of a "plunger" 

 myself, but would not advise others to be so. 



Mr. Morrill commended Branson's Seedling, as did also Mr. Houk. 

 Mr. Morrill said the Kalamazoo is hardy and of excellent quality. He 

 also assured enquirers of the safety of resetting peach trees where such 

 trees have been removed because of yellows. He had known this to be 

 practiced with safety in many localities. 



Some one asked as to the -lacques. 



Mr. Morrill: It is variable in charabter, and the tree is weak. Mr. 

 Lyon: It has for these and other reasons been dropped from the American 

 society's list. 



In answer to inquiries from men who had never seen yellows. Professor 

 Taft described the disease in all its characteristics. The disease has been 

 seen in nursery stock one year old, yet infected buds set into young stocks 

 are not likely to grow; nor will infected pits grow at all unless from trees 

 very slightly aflPected. 



Mr. Lyon: We need have no fear of the spread of yellows from pits. I 

 once planted all the pits from an almond tree, and scarcely any grew. The 

 tree had yellows the next season. Mr. Gulley of South Haven once col- 

 lected a lot of yellows pits to send to Lansing for experimentation; but, 

 cracking a few and finding no germ, the whole were cracked and not a 

 single pit of them all had a germ in it, and so could not possibly have 

 grown. 



A member said he had heard much of how yellows does not spread, and 

 would like to hear just how it does go. 



Mr. Lyon: The theory is that, because of its appearance in remote places, 

 it spreads, not so much by contagion as by infection. It may spread by 

 diffusion of pollen; and bruising of infected trees against others is pretty 

 sure to cause them to have the disease. But these are theories. We are 

 by no means certain of the method of diffusion of the disease. 



Mr. H. H. Keys of Belmont: In the vicinity of Grand Rapids, last 



