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m the orchard. The long season of use, and the peffect satisfaction ren- 

 dered when used either as a dessert fruit or a cooking apple, make it the 

 most desirable of any with which I am acquainted. 



Success to the Society, and continued advancement to the great 

 interests that called it into being. 



H. H. GOODWIN. 



GKAFTING.. 



Mr. Honglitaliiig said the subject of grafting is a thing very 

 little understood, and very many people know nothing at all 

 how it should be done. There are thousands of trees in the 

 country that need to be grafted over to make them worth the 

 ground they occupy, or profitable to their owners. It is just 

 as easy to raise the best fruit as it is the poorest. I have found 

 by experience that it is very easy to put a new top on an apple 

 ^tree even after it is fifteen or twenty years old. I have some 

 in my orchard that were large enough to bear ten bushels of 

 apples before they were grafted, and now have a new top and 

 as handsome as any tree in the orchard. There is a right way 

 to do it ; it is very easy to spoil the shape and beauty of the 

 tree. For this reason I have brought along a few specimens 

 for illustration, that I may show you something of the right 

 and wrong way to success in the art of grafting. 



First. We should cut the limbs out as far from the tree as 

 we can, to keep the top open and well spread out. Second. It 

 should all be done at one time, that the top may make an even 

 growth and be well balanced. Third. They should be watched 

 and attended to, keeping away all tlie suckers that take the 

 growth away from the graft, and sometimes kill them out 

 entirely, as here shown by specimen. 



Mr. Houghtaling here exhibited the modus operandi of 

 grafting, in a very interesting manner. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPLES. 



The committee to whom was referred the apples on exhibi- 

 tion at the April meeting, reported by their Chairman, William 

 Voorhies of Frankfort, Grand Traverse county : 



