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Summon their sweet rich fruit; that our shining silk 



The mulberry leaves should yield to the worm's slow toil. 



How should the popjiy steal t^leep from the very source 



That grants to the grape vine juice that can madden or cheer? 



How does the weed find food for its fabric coarse 



Where the lilies pi cud their bloss )ms pure uprear?" 



SOME WOULD NOT HAVE IT SO. 



Exception was promptly taken to Mr. Glidden's reference to the uselessuess 

 of fibrous roots at the end of each growing season, etc., one speaker citing 

 the importance of "smaller roots" to the successful transplanting of nursery 

 stock. 



Mr. Glidden explained that what are termed fibrous roots are secondary 

 roots, which serve their purpose each season and die. After the transplant- 

 ing of a tree a new set start. One can not tell the difference, always, in small 

 trees, between radicles and secondaries. The former are likely to be very 

 small on nursery stock, but the more there are of them the better. 



0. Beebe of South Haven came to the aid of Mr. Glidden, saying: If all 

 these secondary or fibrous roots lived and continued in growth, what sort of 

 tree would we have? There are thousands of them to every tree or plant. 

 Some of what may in certain cases appear to be secondaries were in fact radi- 

 cles from the start. Broken radicles start out new at the ends. 



R. Morrill: I am aware that Mr. Glidden is perfectly right, but he thrust 

 US ordinary men into deep fog. A little discussion was necessary to clear it 

 up. ^ 



Mr. Glidden: When a tree is taken up, only a slight proportion of the sec- 

 ondary roots come with it. The cutting off of feeders, in transplanting, is 

 what makes necessary the cutting back of the top. 



Mr. Morrill told how he was amazed to find, after a severe rainstorm had 

 washed out a lot of tomato plants, that in five days the roots had grown so 

 fast as to meet and pass in a four-foot row. > 



S. G. Sheffer of Casco read the appended paper on 



SUCCESSFUL PEACH GROWING. 



The topic assigned me, "Successful Peach Growing," is a wide subject, yet 

 it will hardly interest the peach growers unless they obtain better prices for 

 their peaches than many did last season. But as there are m-.iny who raise 

 peaches, or attempt to raise them, who fail, perhaps for the want of informa- 

 tion, I will give my experience and observations for thirty years ; and here 

 let me gay that I was the first peach grower at South Haven. 



LOCATION FOR AN ORCHARD. 



Great care should be taken in selecting the ground for a peach orchard. It 

 should be on elevated land and natural drainage should be had if possible; 

 but if such land cannot be obtained, then land selected for an orchard should 

 be thoroughly under-drained, so that no stagnant water may stand on the 

 surface, for one of the great difficulties to be avoided is wet feet for a peach 

 tree. If peach trees are exposed to a wet soil, it soon shows in the color of 

 the leaf (also the bark), and if it does not have proper drainage it soon meeta 

 premature decay and death. 



