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would advise planters to get trees as near home as possible. He referred again 

 to the fact that trees which he got from the nursery last fall, and heeled in on 

 his place, some standing, were all growing finely. 



The question was asked "Why not set in the fall ?" 



Mr. Lannin supposed they would have done as well. 



Mr. D. B. Williams said plant anything in the fall but peach trees, if the 

 ground is not too wet and a mound is drawn about the base. 



Mr. Lannin said he was led to believe when the first got his farm that it was 

 too clayey to be worth anything for fruit, and he tried to sell ; but it happened 

 well that he could not. He had no blight and very few slugs. Was going to 

 persevere until he had a thriving pear orchard of five hundred trees. 



Liberty Bailey said he found twenty-six moths in an old bird's nest. When 

 a piece of carpet was wrapped about a tree he found all the moths in the folds 

 of the ends tucked under without cocoons. 



Mr. Bidwell showed beautiful samples of evaporated apples, peaches, straw- 

 berries, blackberries, red, black, and yellow raspberries, green corn and beans. 



We have jnst received a copy of the London (England) Grocer, from the 

 publisher, containing mention of the samples of fruit dried by the Williams 

 process, on exhibition at Vienna. 



South Haven, August 18, 1673. 



Miscellaneous business was the order of the evening. 



L. H. Bailey stated that he had just rid some young apple trees of green lice, 

 by dusting the under side of the leaves and the lice with Paris Green, without 

 injury to the trees. 



Mr. D. B. Williams said he had put a spoonful of Paris Green in a pail of 

 water, and syringed trees with it. It put an end to the lice, and did not 

 injure the trees. 



Mr. H. E. Bidwell said he had killed the green lice with carbolic acid water, 

 a crystal about the size of a pea to a pint of water. The trees were not injured. 

 He urged that the second brood of pear slugs should be destroyed now, bj 

 sprinkling any kind of dry dust on them. An orchard in this vicinity last 

 year had trees in it which had the Yellows badly. By his advice, the trees 

 were removed and others set in their places, which are growing finely, and 

 there was now no trace of Yellows in the orchard. 



There was a general and emphatic expression in favor of having a paid com- 

 mittee to look after the Yellows in this vicinity, and to see that the diseased 

 trees were desti'oyed. 



It was moved that Mr. H. E. Bidwell be appointed a committee to examine 

 the orchards in this vicinity for the Yellows, and if any owner of diseased 

 trees refused to destroy them, to report the case to this Society. The motion 

 was carried with emphasis. 



Mr. Bidwell remarked that the market for peaches was injured very much 

 by diseased and hard green peaches being shipped. Hale's Ejirly, especially, 

 and most other varieties of peaches and fruits never became fit to eat when 

 picked before ripe. Here we had quick water transportation, and a great 

 advantage over localities away from the lake, and we ought to avail ourselves 

 of it, by letting our fruit ripen before picking. It was larger, measured more, 

 looked handsomei', and gave better satisfaction to the consumer. 



