DISCUSSION. 85 



right to leave a little basin around the tree, but if you do that 

 be sure to make that allowance, and when it is complete it 

 should be that deep. 



Mr. Beltzer: I believe that every tree that is transplant- 

 ed the next fall should be mulched from a foot to eighteen 

 inches for the first winter, and then remove that in the next 

 spring after the frost is out. 



Mr. Spofford: When he plants these things — raspberries, 

 currants, etc. — in the orchard, how long is that to be kept up? 



Answer: — It depends on the growing kind of seasons we 

 have, but they will run from six to eight or nine years before 

 they become too old to be of value, and by that time you want 

 them out of the orchard and want them out of the way. 



Mr. Spofford: Then where shall we put them? 



Mr. Beltzer: It is time to find another orchard. 



H. S. Harrison : I would like to call attention to the fact that 

 on the table there are some Burbank plums. I have been called 

 upon in several meetings to defend them. Most of the horti- 

 culturists living along the Missouri river have failed to give us 

 a recommendation on these varieties. We can demonstrate 

 they can be raised here most successfully. I would like to go 

 on record as endorsing the Burbank as one of the plums to be 

 planted for family use. They are of rich flavor. I don't sup- 

 pose they are very long lived, and they have been grown for a 

 number of years, and they ought to be pronounced as success- 

 ful in this part of the state. We have got to endorse the Bur- 

 bank for York and Hamilton counties, 



Mr. Christy: When you can grow such plums in Hamilton 

 county what is the use of going to California? 



Mr. Marshall: That is the beauty of having fruit districts. 

 We could not endorse the Burbank for the state over, but 

 there are several districts in the state that would be compelled 

 to endorse that plum. I find it growing fifty miles north of 

 us and more than fifty miles from here. It seems to be quite 

 certain here. Ours failed but once in three years. Another 

 thing, we have a little more rainfall and cloudy weather and it 

 rots on the tree much worse than it does here. It is more or 

 less decayed at time of ripening. 



