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ripening, as it ripens very fast in hot weather, sooner than one is apt 

 to think. 



Sam Miller — We had very few peaches in Montgomery connty" 

 this season. I think the Elberta will be a peach for the whole country. 



Mr. Kreybill— We sold in Kansas City this year $1800 worth of 

 Elberta peaches from six acres of trees planted in the spring of 1889.. 



J. C. Evans — That is a big story, but if my ^ord is worth anything 

 in this Society, I can testify to its correctness. 



Mr. Murtfeldt — I think gathering, packing and shipping should 

 have more attention than they have received.* I knew two famous 

 peach-growers who made a success of the business — Dr. Hull, of Alton, 

 111., and Mr. Wright, of St. Louis county. It is almost impossible in 

 the market to get a perfect basket of peaches, no matter what you are 

 willing to pay. 



Mr. Wright and Dr. Hull sold for 75 cents a basket, when others, 

 were selling for 25 cents. They sold their inferior fruit on the open 

 market without their names on the package. They could not afford to- 

 put their names upon inferior fruit. Their choice fruit was as good, or 

 better, in the middle of the basket as on top. 



Dr. Curry — I came here very desirous of having the cultivation of 

 the peach discussed. I believe that trees have habits the same as 

 children. By training peach-trees correctly when young, they will fol- 

 low the same way when older. We cultivate early in the spring for 

 oats, and when these are off we cultivate the ground for corn. If you 

 plant corn at first, you cultivate the soil at the wrong time. When 

 corn is planted after oats, the ground is cultivated in the hot and some 

 times dry weather of mid-summer. We want to keep the trees grow-^ 

 ing late in the summer. If you cultivate early and not late, the trees^ 

 ripen their buds early, rest, and are ready to swell in the warm, wet 

 weather of the ftill, and be killed by the cold of winter. 



THE PLUM. 



J. C. Evans — Almost everything said on the peach will apply ta 

 the plum, except as to varieties. What varieties are worth cultivating f 



A Member — Wild Goose and Abundance. 



Sam. Miller — I have had trees of the Abundance three years, but 

 no fruit yet, though it is claimed to be an early bearer. 



Mr. Murray — I think we are now growing wild plums of too low 

 quality. I think that the Abundance will be better than these natives, 

 and that it will bear well. From a two-year-old tree that had stood 30 

 degrees below zero, were picked three fine plums nearly as good as 

 Green Gage. The tree that will do that is certainly worth looking 



