Winter Meeting. 187 



J. E. May, Adair Co. — York Imperial stood as well as any. 

 M. Butterlield, Jackson Co.^ — I think York Imperial as hardy 

 as any. 



A. H. Gilkeson, Johnson Co. — Do not the trees in the Bayles 

 orchard in Jackson county show great damage from last winter's cold? 

 In passing by the trees seem sickly. 



Mr. Bntterfield. — That is no proof of the weakness of the York 

 Imperial. There are only 250 trees of that variety in the orchard and 

 they do not show from the road. 



X. F. Murray. — Our customers complain of the blight on York 

 Imperial, and some of them are digging them up and throwing them 

 away on that account. 



J. H. Karnes, Buchanan Co. — I had only a dozen trees of the York. 

 Nine of these were entirely destroyed and the others hurt by the past 

 winter. One of my neighbors had 50 trees of York. Over 40 of these 

 were killed. Another friend, out of one hundred trees set nine years, 

 lost 91. In one other locality I know of the York being badly damaged. 

 In the vicinity of St. Joseph York blights worse than any variety except 

 Jonathan and Yellow Transparent. The latter blights almost as bad 

 as the pear. 



H. M. Hulen, Boone Co. — I have iive hundred York Imperial and 

 am not losing any. They don't blight half as bad as Missouri Pippin. 

 J. T. Snodgrass, Howell Co. — After a winter of thirty degrees 

 below zero we had a fine crop of York Imperial, and no blight. 



E. J. Baxter. — How would the Ingram do for a filler in a Ben 

 Davis orchard ? 



L. A. Goodman. — It would live longer than the Ben Davis. It 

 does not bear as young as the Ben Davis, but grows as large, more up- 

 right, rather slow grower like the Janeton. Its great value is in its 

 late blooming, after all other apples, except the Janeton. It resembles 

 the Janeton but is more handsome and better colored. It escapes early 

 frosts at blooming time. 



C. Hartzell. — In the papers read, allusions were made to the man- 

 ner of plowing. I take it from observation that ploAving the ground is 

 the great thing. There is a very great reason why we should plow the 

 ground before we plant the trees. It can not be well done afterwards. 



