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extensive scale: tbey succeeded well in our gardens, why not as an orchard 

 fruit? Tbey could be dried or canned and made to pay, on a large scale. We 

 have a suitable soil and climate. In reference to plums, they required more 

 care to keep off the curculio, but if we would set out more trees, and give them 

 sufficient care, they would be very profitable, as they were very productive and 

 brought a comparatively high price: they were inclined to overbear, and 

 should be thinned. He thought a systematic shortening of the new shoots on 

 young trees, and a thinning out of the superfluous branches on old trees, 

 would prevent any injury from overbearing. The plum preferred a heavy soil, 

 rich and moist, but not wet. The Lombard and Princess Yellow Gage does 

 ■well on sand. 



C. T. Bryant said that he was simply experimenting in his present effort to 

 grow a plum orchard; had no experience in growing quinces. 



D.B.Williams said the quince did well on a clay sub-soil; he thought 

 large orchards would not be profitable, as people only wanted a few to use; 

 they were very profitable at present; he thought salt good for plums and 

 quinces; he knew of their flourishing ou the sea coast where the salt spray 

 frequently covered them. 



T. T. Lyon thought caution necessary in salting trees. 



L. H. Bailey had no faith in coal tar for getting rid of the curculio on plum 

 trees; he had tried it thoroughly this spring, with no success; he has suc- 

 ceeded well with quinces, but did not cultivate them; mulched heavily with 

 manure; he thought there was more money in peaches. 



W. H. Hurlbut has done well with quinces, but not with plums. 



D. C. Loveday said he used the Eansom chip-trap process for getting rid of 

 the curculio on his plum trees, and followed it with the use of sheets, and was 

 repaid with good crops of sound plums ; they netted him five dollars per bush- 

 el ; had in bearing Washington, Yellow Gage, and Damson. 



GOOSEBERRIES AND CURRANTS. 



South Havek, Nov. 14, 1874. 



C. T. Bryant said, in regard to the cultivation of gooseberries and currants, 

 that they flourished with comparative neglect; cheap labor would grow them, 

 and cheap packages would carry them to market, and they ought to pay. 



John Williams said that English gooseberries, as far as he had observed, did 

 not pay. He thought the late varieties of currants were profitable, especially 

 the Victoria. He had watched the market for several years, with a view ot 

 planting extensively, and would only grow the early varieties to dry. 



T. T. Lyon remarked that, grown as they usually are, with neglect, they 

 were not profitable ; but if cultivated, pruned, and cared for, they would pay. 

 Some objection was raised on account of the birds eating a few ; he would 

 raise them all the more on that account, to encourage the birds to collect them 

 and remain in the orchard, where they would destrjy many injurious insects 

 and worms. The striped fruited variety was later than the Victoria, but 

 smaller and sourer. The earlier varieties might be kept late by covering the 

 bushes with cheap paper bags. Currants might be set between rows of young 



