Annual Meeting at St. Joseph. 107 



other locations they were not injured at all. Here is the place to 

 learn. 



N. F. Murry, Does not censure any one for using pieces of 

 roots for grafting, for he has used them himself. But believes the 

 whole business is wrong, and tends to shorten life. Hopes to see 

 this plan changed, and all nurserymen use whole roots in grafting. 

 Believes it the only correct way. 



L. A. Goodman. Trees must form a tap root ; all the nuts 

 we grow, and most apple trees will form a tap root just as quickly 

 if grafted in a piece of root three inches, as on a piece six or eight 

 or ten inches long. 



F. Holsinger, Rosedale, Kan : — We are living in a new country 

 and we have no trees hundreds of years old. 



Believe that a piece two inches in length just as good as a foot, 

 and we cannot follow the old plan of budding on single seedlings. 



C. H. Finh, Lamar : — Can go into any orchard and tell where 

 the roots are from the growth of the top. A spreading tree has 

 spreading roots, and an upright tree has straight tap roots. 



He has experimented with all sorts of cuts, crown grafts, mid- 

 dle cuts, tips, &c., and finds no difference in the growth. 



The next paper was — 



WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE TEOUBLE WITH OUR APPLE 

 TREES AND. HOW SHALL WE REMEDY IT ? 



BY H. SCHOLTOX, SPEINGFIELD. 

 MlSSOUEI HOKTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Gentlemen : Though a new member of your body, I should 

 esteem it a pleasure and an honor to perform any duty you might 

 assign me — but in this case you have given me a most difficult duty 

 indeed. I can readily see that our apple trees are sick, but to 

 diagnose and prescribe, requires a better doctor. I will however, as 

 an opinion, state that, after much thought npon the matter.the un- 

 satisfactory condition of our trees is mainly the result of injury 

 they received by the severe frost of 1880, which came in November 

 when our trees were, in this region, in a very unripe condition, as 

 wholly unprepared for such a rigorous attack as a man without a 

 coat. Many thousand trees were killed outright — thousands more 

 seemed crippled — are unsatisfactory in the character of their fruit. 



