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or ten crates a day. Of course yon mnst thin out some of that liead 

 after a while, but he does have nice line fruit. 



Question — I would like to have a description of the Wilder currant. 



Mr. Munson— It is rather hard to describe currants, but the Wilder 

 has a long bunch of good sized berries and they run more nearly uni- 

 form in size than other varieties. 



A Member — ^We have something like 700 now set out, but as yet have 

 not come to maturity, and we are anxious to know just Avhat we should 

 do with them. I hear that the only trouble with the Wilder is that it 

 is a little early and gets frosted. 



Mr. Munson — We never had that trouble. 



ADDRESS OF PROF. GREEN, OF THE WORCESTER, OHIO, EX- 

 PERIMENT STATION. 



Mr. Chairman, Members Michigan Horticultural Society : 



It is with great pleasure that I meet with you here, and wiiile I came 

 in late, I have already met those I have met in years gone by, and I 

 hope to further renew this acquaintance, as well as make new ones. 



I desire to say that the State Horticultural Society of Ohio has a 

 very warm feeling for this Society. We all look to Michigan for in- 

 creased knowledge and for instruction. We have had some of your 

 good men with us, and we have sent some of our men to you. I wish 

 we could get better acquainted, and I am sure that we will. I have not 

 come direct from our State Society, but I know that our Society would 

 like to extend greeting and wish you well not only in this meeting but 

 throughout the whole year. 



We have some fellow feeling, some fellow experiences. I understand 

 that you have been cut off from your State appropriation. We have 

 passed through this experience ourselves, I do not remember just how 

 many years ago it was, but five or six. The Governor found that it was 

 unconstitutional to give our Society a thousand dollars a year. At first 

 we were about ready to give up, thinking that without official support 

 our society would go down. But after a time we found that we could 

 paddle our own canoe, and today we are much better oflE financially and 

 in membership than ever before. It is the same old story, that where 

 there is a will there is a way, and it is the same with societies as with 

 individuals. It so happened that a member of the experiment station 

 was secretary and then the station allowed him to act as secretary with- 

 out pay. We had long been talking about a secretary who would give 

 all his time to the w^ork, and now this man who has as much time as is 

 necessar}', devotes as little time as he can, most of his time being occu- 

 pied for the Station. We do not have as large a membership as you do, 

 but we can not get it. We have found out that by helping ourselves, 

 we are improving in every way. 



There is a great deal of interest at present in Ohio as well as all over 

 the country in horticulture. But the greatest interest is in the apple 

 crop, and this is true over the entire country. I will speak of one 



