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be slig-htly injured by severe ciittiug-. Did not consider their success a ques- 

 tion of soil. 



L. M. Ford — though other Ivinds had failed on liis grounds, he had never 

 lost a Siberian Crab. 



P. A.Jewell said that in Eastern Wisconsin many Crabs had root-killed. 

 To make them certain they should be mulched. 



Col. Robertson believed the Transcendent to be as hardy as any tree in the 

 State. Eorest trees are mulched by nature, and he was satisfied fruit trees 

 needed mulching as well. 



J. S. Shearman had never known the Transcendent to winter-kill, but it is 

 very liable to blight. It is the most rapid growing of apple trees, a gross 

 feeder, adapting itself to any kind of soil, and bearing heavily. It blights at 

 the ends of limbs, when the wood blackens and dies. WJien dirt is thrown 

 up around the scion, it throws out roots of its own above the stock, in which 

 case the tree never root-kills ; otherwise, it is liable to root-kill. 



r. A. Jewell did not agree with Mr. Shearman about the blight. Had seen 

 very few Transcendents injured by it. Believe the cause of blighting still in 

 the dark, and thought its rapid growth had no connection with it. 



Mr. Stewart expressed the belief that if we could get these Crabs on their 

 own roots, there would be no longer any necessity for mulching, except to 

 guard against drouth. 



S. Hunt had never known them to blight except when neglected, or grass 

 grown. 



Col. Robertson had heard it stated that the Common Apple would not suc- 

 ceed when grafted on a Cral). He quoted, as the opinion of an experienced 

 horticulturist, that blight is caused by the descent of the roots into soil not 

 adapted to the tree. 



P. A. Jewell — these trees blight in June after a growth of one or two feet, 

 and are more likely to blight in a wet season than in a dry. 



Col. Robertson oilered the following resolution, which was unanimously 

 adopted : 



Resolved^ That the Society recommend the general cultivation in all kinds of soils of the 

 Siberian Crab, and the propagation of seedlings of the Transcendent for superior varieties. 



P. A. Jewell moved to consider the Hyslop Crab. 

 Carried. 



A recess was then moved to discuss a barrel of apples furnished by J. S. 

 Shearman. 

 No dissenting voices. 



AFTER RECESS. 



Wyman Elliot presented specimens of Hyslop in good condition. The tree 

 had proved perfectly hardy in sandy soil. 



P. A. Jewell did not consider the Hyslop quite as hardy as the Transcen- 

 dent. He had seen trees injured by cutting. It does not bear quite so heavy 



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