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but themselves, void of reputation or respectability, who olfer some 

 unknown specialty at ten times the value of good well-known 

 articles. The sooner horticulturists expose and drive them from 

 the field, the better for all concerned in the production of either 

 trees or ft-uits. 



It gives me pleasure to see so many present evincing an interest 

 in the discussions of this^^Summer meeting, and it is to be hoped 

 they may all be not only'pleasantly, but profitably entertained and 

 instructed. 

 Discussioisr : 



Goodman — Has nothing to say against the honest nurserymen, 

 for their efforts are not fully appreciated, but there are men through 

 the country who do nothing but swindle the people. There is a 

 peculiar love for fruit-growing in the true horticulturist, that does 

 not fade out but grows stronger as one grows older. Hundreds of 

 examples of this are seen all over our country. 



Jlagan — In answer to the question as to who gets rich fruit 

 farming, he would like to ask who get poor ? All men have their 

 ups and downs and their trials and troubles. I set one year 1,400 

 pear trees, and now the blight has taken them all ; but these 

 reverses did not discourage me and I must plant again. Eiches 

 are not all in money. Pleasure and contentment are the best part 

 of riches. 



Holsinger — Things are getting warm ; does not know what men 

 call riches. A beautiful home surrounded with beautiful trees and 

 orchards and vines, furnishing his table in abundance with the best 

 fruits the year 'round, he would call rich. One day he was asked 

 to join a horticultural society at Kansas City, and from that day he 

 has been growing fruits and making money. Can point to a half 

 dozen of those members to-day who are independent if not rich. 

 Would have the whole family belong to these societies and bring the 

 boys and girls up as horticulturists. ' 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES FOR THE SPRING OF 1884. 



BY MAKY E. MURTFELDT, KIRKWOOD, ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MO. 



My observations this season on insects destructive to fruits in 

 St. Louis county consist mainly in the recognition of well known 

 species, and but few of these in such numbers as to cause appre- 

 hension. 



