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Mr. Wilcox. — We have both together. You ^vill have no difficulty 

 in getting rid of the berries under the trees. 



Kichmond, Mo., Dec. 5, 1899. 

 L. A. Goodman, Secretary State Horticultural Society, Princeton, Mo. : 

 Dear Sir. — I submit the inclosed questions for your "Question 

 Box" at horticultural meeting. Hoping to have them answered for my 

 own information and no doubt many other amateur fruit growers will 

 be enlightened thereby. Yours truly, 



Geo. a. Stone. 



Question.- — Apple fruit buds are said to be developed in October 

 and November. How are they to be certainly distinguished from leaf 

 buds ? 



Answer. The round, large plump buds on spurs are usually fruit 

 buds, but you cannot always be sure mthout examination with a glass. 



Question. — What varieties of apple trees are long lived and what 

 are short lived ? Please name a few leading winter varieties with 

 average life of same. 



Answer. — Stark, McAfee, jSTorthern Spy, Trenton's Earh^, The 

 ^N'orthern Spy is the longest, probably. 



Prof. Emerson, of Lincoln, Nebraska, being called upon, said: I 

 am very glad to meet with you and hear your papers aiyi discussions. 

 There is much to interest a Nebraskan, though conditions are different. 

 Northwest Missouri and southeast Nebraska are similar. The greater 

 part of Nebraska is a more or less undulating plain. There are hills in 

 the southeast part, and now I know where they come from. Your 

 secretary asked me to say something about what we are doing in our 

 state, but as I went there only last summer I don't like to tell what we 

 are doing. I would like to have you come to our winter meeting the 

 ninth and tenth of January, at Lincoln. All of our horticultural so- 

 ciety meetings are held at the university. The university is fortunate 

 in this respect. All the agricultural societies meet at Lincoln. 



J. J. Kiser, Stanberry, said: — Prof. Whitten casually made the 

 statement that honeydew was the exudation of aphides. I would 

 like, with all respect to his learning and position, to enter 

 a protest. I have kept bees for twenty-seven years as my 

 principal business; have watched carefully the conditions when bees 

 gather it, and find invariably that it is developed at a time of a very low 



