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DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Spcer—We have some persons with us to-night who have not 

 followed fruit growing- as a business. They will look over these tables 

 here to-night and see that tliey give the lie to the paper that has just 

 been read. The evidence of their senses does not correspond with 

 what they have heard. Friend Carpenter is a man of a great deal of 

 humor. He has, perhaps, associated with some of the correspondents 

 of the "reliable" daily papers and drawn upon his imagination for the 

 paper. All of us have had some part of the experience of Mr. Carpen- 

 ter, but I don't believe that any of us fruit growers would be willing to 

 saj' that he had made as complete a failure as Mr. Carpenter pictures. 



My experience with the plum is much the same as his. The small 

 fruits have always paid me for any labor or pains I have given them. 

 I have made a moderate success of apples. I believe that with intel- 

 ligent selection of a site and good care we need not have a complete 

 failure. I would not like our friends from Illinois and Iowa to go 

 away with such an impression as this paper might give them if it is to 

 stand as the views of this society. 



President — He has written the facts just as he got them from the 

 record he makes of everything he does, and that paper is his experience, 

 and I know it is for he has told it to me over and over. He has told 

 it to me twenty tiroes, but everyone has not had just such an experi- 

 ence. ^ 



Mr. Durl-es — I think Mr. Carpenter's experience has probably 

 soured him, hence his witticism. 



Mr. Murrij — I think there is too much malaria in that locality. 



President — It is said that malaria makes us dull, so there cannot 

 be any effects of malaria in that paper. 



Mr, Lanf/Jilin — I am opposed to letting that paper go out as a rep- 

 resentation of the reliable nurserymen of the State. There are as re- 

 liable men in the business as can be found in any business. 



Br. Gordon — There are so ujany things to be careful about that it 

 is very easy to make mistakes. You must have a careful, honest man 

 to select the grafts for you and graft them for you, an honest man to 

 send in the order, an honest man to dig the trees and label them. I 

 bought trees from a man who represented them as Fall Queen. I be- 

 lieve they are the Milam. Jonathan proves to be White Winter Pear- 

 main. Eome Beauty was a summer apple. 



Mr. Gaunt — I want to say that I have been in the nursery business 

 for thirty yeaes. I have a great deal of pride, not vanity, in saying 



