350 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. J. Bull had heard it remarked that the pits of frost or seedling peaches 

 produced the most vigorous trees. 



Mr. A. T. Penniman stated such was the fact, and the same was true of the 

 plum. 



Mr. H. E. Bidwell said the hardiest stocks were from very old seedliDg trees 

 in the South, though they were not strong growers. Almond stocks were twice 

 as long lived as peach. The roots of trees were affected by the variety budded 

 on them, and partook of the same nature, so much so that nurserymen could 

 often distinguish varieties by the peculiar form of the roots. 



Mr. J. F. Crowley stated that he had seen seedling peach trees a foot in diam- 

 eter, growing wild in the pine forests of Virginia, loaded with very good 

 peaches. 



Mr. J. Bull stated that he saw seedling trees 30 years old bearing good crops 

 — peaches poor. He had been informed that in New Jersey the trees were so 

 short lived they planted them far apart, setting others between them, year after 

 year, cutting each successive planting out when seven years old. 



Mr. D. B. Williams said he had lived in the New Jersey peach country, and 

 had never saw that done. Trees were short lived, and only were expected 

 to bear two or three good crops ; but they planted new orchards on fresh ground. 

 Trees from seedling pits were best. 



Mr. A. J. Pierce told of a tree on his father's place, seven miles southeast of 

 here, from a double pit, a seedling, nearly a foot through, which had never failed 

 of a crop since of bearing age. 



South Haven, Jau. 20, 1873. 



The question for consideration was " How shall we protect our fruit from 

 the codling moth ?" 



Mr. N. Phillips stated that he had a large apple orchard in Illinois which 

 became badly infested with the codling moth. He turned sheep into it just 

 after the fruit was out of blossom. They ate up the small apples which dropped 

 from the trees, and as a consequence he had upwards of 900 bushels of nice 

 apples. 



Mr. D. B. Williams said he had an apple tree which required support, — to 

 protect the tree from chafing, a cloth bandage was wrapped about it, which 

 remained on two years. When this was removed he found cocoons and remains 

 of many moths, and furrows burrowed in the bark, which he supposed were 

 made by the moths or worms. This seemed to confirm the practice recom- 

 mended by some, of wrapping bandages about trees to trap the moths. He 

 don't know of any better way to catch and destroy them. 



Mr. C. H. Wigglesworth had read of a man who shook the trees very early 

 in the season, and destroyed all the apples that fell. He noticed a very decided 

 effect the first year, and after doing so three years almost rid his orchard of the 

 moths. He thought that if every man who has an apple orchard would take 

 the pains to pick up all the apples which fell prematurely, and destroy them, 

 or turn in sheep or hogs to do this, we would not be damaged much by them. 



Mr. L. H. Bailey referred to an orchard which had been pastured by hogs 

 and calves for several years, in which the moths did much more damage than 

 in his, which had been constantly cultivated. 



