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every home in this land. Let iis help carry it there; let us help by our 

 knoAvledge and by judicious suggestions, and help here and everywhere, 

 do what we can to make rural life a blessing and better than it is, 

 because, for all the money we may get out of the business— we do not 

 wish it to j)ile it up, we do not wish it that we may say we have grown 

 rich, but we desire it in order to help beautify the rural homes of this 

 country. Every farm home in this land can have around it a picture 

 that money can not buy. Just the doing away with a few old fences, 

 cleaning up the nast}', abominable back yard of the average farm home, 

 and the planting of beautiful flowers and shrubbery and trees and vines, 

 and a little judicious pruning at the right time, and the mowing of the 

 lawn and the planting of Howers — something that does not cost much 

 mone^- and will fill our souls with gladness, something that monej' can 

 not buy — that, it seems to me, is one of the peculiar works of the horticul- 

 tural society. Let us do more to beautify and spread hapi)iness in the 

 farm homes of our land. (Applause.) 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Ramsdell : Have you ever used a grader for grading peaches? 



Mr. Hale: I have seen such machines used, but I love the peach too 

 well to put it into one of those abominations. 



Mr. Cook: In the course of your talk, 30U spoke of raising one crop at 

 a time. We have in this country, where we are subject to drouths almost 

 every season (we rarely escape a dry spell of from four to six weeks in 

 ordinary seasons), to plant corn or something of that kind for shade in 

 order to protect from the strong sun the young trees. What would you 

 sav in regard to the utilitv of that? 



Mr. Llale: ^A'hat should I say to a man who would set up a thousand 

 pumps in his field and go to pumping water out and running it off some- 

 where, and thinking he was making money and keeping the ground moist 

 because he had the shade of those pumps? I would say he was woefully 

 .stupid. 



Mr. Wiley: Have you had any experience with what is known as 

 rosette in the south? 



Mr. Hale: Kosette has not been in the section of Georgia w'here I am; 

 it has been within seventy miles of us, was quite prevalent there four 

 or five 5'ears ago, and when it attacked the trees it would kill them in one 

 season. It is a clustering growth on the tips of some of the branches, 

 something like the cluster growth of yellows, only more compact than 

 what we call pennyroyal growth in yellows. It will kill a tree in a year, 

 but they have done little to eradicate the disease, pulling out and burning 

 the trees, but the disease is rapidly dying out. There was very little 

 of it in 1SS)5, and scarcely any in 1890, so far as I know. It seems to be a 

 disease that broke out six or seven years ago and was most prevalent five 

 yeais ago, but there is very little of it. 



Mr. Sherwood: T would like to ask what size package you advocate 

 for your longest shipping? 



Mr. Hale: For long siiijtping the best package that we know of at the 

 present time is what is known as the Georgia fruit package, the six- 

 . basket carrier. 



