SUMMER MEETING AT CHILLICOTHE. 27 



Wednesday, June 8 — 2 p. m. 



An invitation was presented by Mr. P. Finn of Carthage, strongly 

 urging the Society to hold its annual meeting at Carthage, Mo., Decem- 

 ber 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1892. 



Herman Yeager, of Neosho, sends word that we need not fear to 

 plant grapes any more. They can be easily protected from the rot by 

 spraying with ammoniacal carbonate of copper or the Bordeaux mix- 

 ture. We can grow grapes as easily as gooseberries. 



Mr. Smith named what he considered the best grapes : Concord, 

 Worden, Moore's Early, Niagara, Pocklington. 



Prof. J. C. Duflfey uses the Galloway sprayer and it gives entire 

 satisfaction. StahPs sprayer is on the same plan but not so ^od. 

 Uses the knapsack sprayer and cyclone nozzle. Commence before the 

 leaves come out, and continue every week or two, and we need have 

 no fear of rot. 



Mr. Murray thinks grapes will pay at a very low price in our home 

 market'. Likes Coleraine grape ; it is white and a delicious grape. Ca- 

 taw^ba is the best to his taste. Of course the Concord is the grape for 

 the million. 



Mr. Gilbert urges caution in this spraying business. Be sure you 

 have a perfect spray and not a stream. 



THE unsuccessful HORTICULTURIST. 



One cla83 of horticulturists that are unsuccessful are those that are going to 

 set a big orchard some time, but never get to it ; it Is always as far off as next spring 

 or another year, but when the time comes it is just as far off as ever. Another 

 kind are those that wait till a fellow comes around setting trees with a nice pic- 

 ture book ; he has some new kinds that are going to do a great deal better than any 

 of the old kinds. As he hasn't read the horticultural reports and doesn't know 

 which are best, he takes what the picture-book fellow wants to sell, and the conse- 

 quence is a large proportion are unprofitable trees. His trees are very often 

 shipped a long distance, and are often half dead when received. He could have 

 gotten good tiees in his own neighborhood— fresh dug — for a good deal less money ,^ 

 but the picture-book fellow told him that his neighbor nurseryman was all sold 

 out of trees that were any account. 



He did not go to see whether it was so or not, but thinks it surely must be so, 

 and takes the trees because he is afraid he will never get another chance to get 

 any. Well, spring comes and he gets his trees; he is in a hurry and can't spend 

 much time setting them out ; perhaps the ground is too wet, and the roots are 

 crowded into a very small hole, the dirt tramped down, and he hurries off to sow 

 his oats and plant his corn ; don't think ab^ut the trees, unless he happens to go 

 that way, and then he doesn't notice that the ground is cracked open down to the 

 roots, but if the tree looks sickly, he notices that and says to himself: "how that 

 fellow lied to me." 



