ANNUAL MEETING, I906, WIS. STATE HORT. SOCIETY. I85 



two known parents, and that the majority of so called "pedigreed" 

 plants, sold by very many tree agent's within the United States, 

 was not a legitimate deal. 



"Apple Blight and Apple Canker," by Prof. H. H. Wetzel, Cor- 

 nell University, N. Y., was a very interesting paper, and the pro- 

 fessor was enthusiastic and very confident that he had a sure pre- 

 ventative of the fire blight, which idea was not shared by the older 

 members who had had personal experience with it. 



Prof. Beach, of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 presented a paper on "The Spraying of Apples and Potatoes" that 

 was one of the best, in my opinion, that I have ever listened to. 

 His plan of making Bordeaux mixture was to dissolve the copper 

 sulphate in a small amount of water and the lime was to be slaked 

 in a small amount of water. These could be kept any length of 

 time and mixed in a sufficient amount any time that it is wished 

 to use it. He uses four pounds of copper sulphate and four pounds 

 ■of lime, which is sufficient for fifty gallons of water. He prefers 

 arsenic one pound, sal soda four pounds, dissolved in two gallons 

 of water, to Paris Green, as it will mix better and not settle, and he 

 thinks it much better for spraying potatoes. In spraying potatoes 

 he uses six pounds of this mixture to fifty gallons of water and only 

 four pounds for spraying trees. 



Mr. A. L. Hatch had an article headed "Faith, Hope and Cher- 

 ries," and in the discussion that followed most of the people got 

 more faith and hope than they did cherries. The cherry growers 

 of Wisconsin are in about the same box that the Minnesota growers 

 are, very few cherries for the amount of money and labor expended. 



Some of the members of the society tried hard to pass resolu- 

 tions to appoint a committee to wait on the Wisconsin representa- 

 tives to try and make a law which would prevent tree peddlers from 

 gulling the people, but the general opinion was that it would not be 

 practicable, and the best way to handle them was to educate the 

 people that it would be to their advantage to buy their trees from 

 persons who have known reputations for selling nursery stock true 

 to name, and if they do not take such warning the only way was 

 to leave them to the mercy of the tree peddler. 



The meeting ended with a banquet, which was largely attended 

 and was a success in every particular. We do not think that we 

 ever attended a meeting where the members were more genial and 

 pleasant than those we met at this meeting. 



