292 State Horticultural Society. 



Mr. Tippin — From three three->ear-olJ irees, six inches in diameter, 

 there were gatherd ten bushels of peaches. 



Mr. Smelzer — Those who are opposed to pruning come to it after 

 awhile. I am in favor of pruning severely. The man at Van Buren 

 is now beginning to prune in this orchard. If these gentlemen were 

 to go through it now they would find the men at work cutting off some 

 of the lower limbs. He has to keep the low limbs cut off, as the peaches 

 on them do not color and take the substance from the other. He 

 started his trees too low, so he has to take the under limbs off, as the 

 fruit falls from tliese before it is ripe and his trees are not over five 

 years old. Another man. also I know prunes after from three to five 

 years. I do not believe in. heading too low. I prefer three to four feet. 



Mr. Tippin — I don't want to leave any confusion. I was referring 

 to the three-year-old orchard and not to an orchard which had been 

 pruned. I think pruning is necessary. 



L. C. Wilson — If you cut close to a shoot, that will grow, and no 

 other, I had peaches last year on limbs as big as my finger and from 

 dormant buds. 



D. McNallie — I left some trees not pruned in order to save the" 

 peaches on them, and do not need to prune them to-day, because so many 

 limbs and twigs died, but where I pruned I have many new limbs. 

 This may be due to the season or the variety. 



D. Lowmiller^I am a delegate from the Missouri Valley Society 

 and rise to invite you to hold the next winter meeting of this State So- 

 ciety at Kansas City. 



A. Chandler — I think, too, that 'we should have the next meeting 

 with the Missouri Valley at Kansas City. 



SIXTH SESSION— THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2:30 p. m. 



Mr. G. A. Atwood introduced the following resolution ; its adop- 

 tion was moved by Mr. Murray and seconded by Mr. Tippin and was 

 carried : 



Resolved by the Missouri State Horticultural Society, that the 

 President and Secretary of this Society be requested to attend the an- 

 nual meeting of the National League of Commission Merchants which 

 vvrill assemble in the city of New Orleans January 11-13 proximo, as 

 delegates from this Society, and that they be instructed to co-operate 

 with the league in its efforts to secure just rates for the transportation 



