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them, and in a few years they will see them hardy enough, especi- 

 ally if they plant the seed where the tree is to stand in the orchard. 

 As near as I can find out, the trees overbear, and having generally 

 dry falls they loose their leaves early, and by the droughts and 

 shallow planting, or planting on any incline, the surface soils are 

 all washed away, and the roots being near the surface and exposed, 

 the hot sun and winds dry them up. They appear to be root 

 killed. I think that paper [his essay on Seedlings] would be to some 

 advantage to their society. I am sure the principle is correct, as it 

 is following nature. Those old trees that the French missionaries 

 planted on the shores of the upper lakes in Michigan and Wiscon- 

 sin, a few hundred years ago (pear and apples), are witness, as they 

 are good yet for an other hundred years if they are let alone. 



We have had a long, hard winter, and I find that some varieties 

 of the apple and pears are injured badly. Even the Flemish 

 Beauty is badly hurt, but I find five of my seedling pears good 

 to the tips, and blossom yet good, while seven are hurt in the 

 tips, and blossoms also; and all the grafted sorts are black, and 

 young trees killed, except winter Nellis. With apples, Westfield 

 Seeknofurther are nearly ruined, and Fameuse shows badly colored 

 wood, and many others. 



I made drawings, or outlines, and descriptions from the seedlings 

 left me from your winter exhibition, but I think there was a mis- 

 take in the award on the sweet apple, as it proved when I cut it 

 and got the flavor, etc., that it was the Utter, grown on a crab 

 stock, and was not a sweet apple at all. The label might have 

 been changed while we packed up. 



Cordially yours, etc., 



GEO. P. PEFFER. 



THE STBAWBERRY LEAF EOLLER. 



LETTER FROM PROF. FORBES. 



Office oe State Entomologist, ) 

 Normal, Illin-ois, March. 22, 1883. f 

 Mr. Oliver Gibbs, Jr. 



Dear Sir: The strawberry leaf roller [anchjlopera fragarice) 

 is said by fruit-growers here to be a nocturnal moth, and I don't 



