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Mr. Elliot had found that potted plants knocked out of" the pots 

 and heeled in, in the latter part of October, came out good in the 

 spring, and rooted runners can be also heeled in at the same sea- 

 son, and saved if the work is carefully done. In reply to an inquiry 

 he said he used two-inch pots and confiued the runner over it till 

 rooted by a lump of earth or any other light weight. Swamp 

 muck had been used with success as a soil to fill into the pots. 



DISCUSSION ON FROST RESUMED. 



Mr. Putnam being called out, gave an account of severe losses of 

 fruit by the recent frost in Wisconsin. He had been puzzled by 

 noticing that some of the grapes that had never been laid down at 

 all and had started most were injured less than those held back by 

 lying on the ground. These were mostly Concords that had run 

 up on the apple trees and fences. They had an arbor vita3 hedge 

 on the east and south. This was the only frost that had injured 

 fruit in that section for sixteen years. 



Mr. Woolsey found that grapes that had been uncovered early 

 and that had strong shoots were uninjured, while those uncovered 

 shortly before the frost were badly hurt. 



Isaac Fawcett, of Minneapolis, thought that white frosts, never, 

 as a rule, did any injury on high elevations, but when of suificient 

 severity to freeze the ground the injury was apt to be more severe 

 than on low grounds. Strawberries, as a rule, would endure our 

 white frosts. He did not think mulching ot strawberries was of 

 any avail as a protection from spring frosts. 



Mr. Pearce had found that vines which stood out uncovered 

 through the winter would endure severer cold than those mulched 

 and afterwards uncovered. 



Col. Stevens asked for information from Mr. Norquist, f Red 

 Wing as to the effect of frost in his vineyard. Mr. Norquist re- 

 plied that his grounds were elevated, being about three hundred 

 feet above the waters of the Mississippi river, and his grapes were 

 entirely uninjured. Had uncovered and tied them up three weeks 

 before the frost of May 23, and they had made about four inches ot 

 growth at the time of the frost. Strawberries also escaped. They 

 had been uncovered just before the frost. 



Prof. Porter said that recent cultivation of the soil before a 

 frost radiated the heat more freely, and was a protection from 

 injury. 



Several members alluded to freaks of the frosts in taking some 

 plants and leaving of others, and Prof. Porter remarked that these 



