330 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



November Meeting. 



The society held its November meeting in the court room. This meeting 

 was the most profitable and interesting of any yet held. 



James Whaley described a number of varieties of apples which he had on 

 exhibition, the length of time the trees had been set, the rapidity of growth 

 and the hardihood of the stock. He did not know the names of any of them 

 as none of the trees he bought were true to name as labeled. 



John Nichols said he had found no trouble with the Oldeuburgh and Tal- 

 man Sweet. The trees were hardy and stood the winter well, but he found a 

 great many varieties that would winter-kill on the west and south side of the 

 tree and were always "black hearted." 



Mr. Whaley said the Maiden's Blush was hardy, but that the Wagener was 

 no good at all here. This seemed the unanimous virdict in regard to this 

 variety. 



The president, Mr. Crosby, said he bought a lot of trees from a man who 

 said he raised them, but none of them were the kind he said they were. One 

 labeled a crab was the Western Beauty, a fine summer apple, very early and 

 the tree extremely hardy. The Oldeuburgh and Bed Astrachan are good apples, 

 all the trees hardy, but the Ben Davis winter killed. He said that in straw- 

 berries he considered the Monarch of the West a very fine berry, Colonel 

 Cheney a good family and table berry, but the Wilson beats the world for can- 

 ning. 



Elmer Lewis said the Manchester fertilized by the James Vick were in his judg- 

 ment the best bearers in the market. The Sharpless was an excellent berry 

 but not adapted to this climate as they were almost invariably in bloom when 

 we have our June frosts and so could not be depended on. Crosby said barn- 

 yard manure was not adapted to strawberries, but that ashes were, and that 

 bone dust was best of all. Lewis said some varieties would stand barnyard 

 manure and some would not. Tbe Vick and Manchester would, but the Wil- 

 son would not. He also said he was much interested in raspberries, had had 

 excellent success with nearly all his. The Mammoth Cluster is very hardy 

 and a good bearer. Shaffer is a large purple berry, very excellent for canning. 

 He said he had no trouble with either frost or blight with any of his plants. 



The early Richmond cherry did well, as did also the General Grant ; none of 

 these trees showing any winter injury. Mr. Crosby said the Lombards did well, 

 but one had better go slow on the Weaver as it is a small almost wild variety 

 and very subject to leaf blight. 



Nichols said the Red and Yellow Egg plums were not hardy ; all his three- 

 year-old trees died. Whaley said his plum trees were doing well but none of 

 them had borne any yet. He recommended washing all fruit trees with weak 

 lye or strong soap suds every spring and see to it that no moss is left on them. 



The Tetofsky apple tree was by all pronounced hardy but the fruit so poor 

 as to be hardly worth cultivating. 



It was decided to send Mr. Crosby as a delegate to the annual meeting of the 

 State Society next week and that he take the varieties of apples shown by Mr. 

 Whaley and have them named and classified by some expert at that time, and 

 also that he report at the next meeting. It was recommended that all mem- 

 bers who wish to order trees, do so at the next or January meeting. 



