72 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



As the feeding roots run out farther from the trunk than the 

 branches, the circle manured should extend beyond the end of the 

 limbs. 



Too much cannot be said as to the value of wood ashes as a manure 

 for all crops. Used either alone or with equal parts of ground bone, 

 they are the best fertilizer that can be obtained, as they furnish, in a 

 soluble form, all of the mineral elements required by a plant. 



As in these diseases of plants, so it is with all, and if you keep the 

 plants healthy they will generally escape the attack of parasites, but 

 if you find that they have got them, try to feed both host and tenant. 



L. R. TAFT. 



DISCUSSION. 



L. A. Goodman thought that the pear blight and yellows could not 

 be the same parasite, as they seemed to affect the trees differently. 



Rev. Mr. Walker has saved his trees when attacked by pear blight 

 by striking with the face of a hatchet. 



Major Ragan has no faith in any cure for pear blight; said there 

 were two kinds, frost blight and fire blight; pears in this climate are a 

 failure ; thought that during a whole life time we should be able to find 

 a remedy for this disease, but so far we haven't; thought it was caused 

 by sudden change of temperature. 



PRIMITIVE HORTICULTURE AND THE GARDEN OF MOD- 



ERN TIMES. 



BY MRS. C. I. ROBARDS, OF BUTLPR. 



The garden of my grandmother is none the less sacred to memory 

 because it contained so many old fashioned and unfashionable herbs 

 and flowers. Then grew the rue and tansy and fragrant thyme, the 

 sage and wormwood, and all the other wonderful plants whose uses 

 were only known to matrons of the olden time. 



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