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the weiikcuing effects of too inucli Avood iuid vine, Avliicli tends to increase the 

 iminber, but decreases the size of the fruit. 



Ilarvey Linderman said tlio Wilson was tlic best strawberry ho had grown, 

 thougli he had not tlie experience of Mr. Wigglcsworth. 



A. S. Dycknian said he was favorably impressed with the Herstine raspberry. 



W. n. ilurlbut said the Olinton grape was the best wine grape — it kept well 

 and held its flavor. It was acknowledged the best American wine grape intro- 

 duced into l^'rance. 



On motion, Messrs. Wigglcsworth, Phillips and II. Linderman were chosen 

 to prepare a list of small fruits, to report in two weeks. 



February 10. 



The subject for discussion was : Where shall we buy our ISTursery Stock? 



A committee was appointed at a previous meeting to report at this meeting a 

 list of small fruits for this locality for market purposes. 0. H. Wigglcsworth, 

 chairman of the committee, submitted the following report, which was voted to 

 be laid on the table for one week : 



The committee recommend the following varieties for market purposes : 



StraAvberries— Wilson's Albany for all soils; Triumph De Gand and Jucunda for 

 clay. 



lied Raspberries — Kirtland and Herstine for rich soil of any kind. 



Black Cap Kaspberries — Doolittle and Mammoth Clnster for rich soil of any kind. 



Blackberries — Kittatinny and Lawton for rich soil of any kind. 



Currants — Victoria, red, and Naples, black. 



Gooseberry — Houghton Seedling. 



Grapes — Delaware and Concord. 



C. H. WIGGLESWOETH, 



N. PHILLIPS, 



H. J. LINDEEMAN. 



Mr. AVigglesworth ventiltated the subject of buying fruit trees and other 

 nursery stock of Eastern agents or nurserymen, saying we had been swindled 

 out of thousands of dollars annually by a set of scamps who are traveling 

 through the country taking orders for nursery stock. 



He had bought stock of agents and nurserymen which proved to be worthless 

 both in kind and quality; had bought Mammoth Cluster raspberries which were 

 not Mammoth Cluster at all, but were of the wild varieties from the woods ; 

 also, peach and apple trees which proved to be not the same as ordered. He 

 considered the great majority of both nurserymen and their agents no better 

 than thieves and swindlers of the meanest class. Some of tlie nurserymen of 

 our own State were no better, and gave an instance of being swindled by Bragg 

 & Waters of Kalamazoo, and lie declared he never would buy anything of 

 them again, 



H. Linderman recommended buying of home nurseries ; he knew of men 

 paying fifty cents for an Early Louisa peach tree, when it could be bought for 

 half that price here at home. He had paid ^1 per dozen for strawberries not 

 true to tlie kind, and bought fifty Wild Goose and Miner plum trees which were 

 entirely worthless. 



U. C. Loveday said we had much better wait one or two years for the trees to 

 grow here than to buy of eastern men. Eastern trees were not reliable, either 

 in kind or quality. 



Mr. Slielfer gave a short but interesting history of his experience in purchas- 

 ing trees of a western nurseryman, Phenix of Bloomington, Illinois ; he sent 



