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Mr. Cole : What do you think of wrapping- the tree with bur- 

 lap? Is it not better than veneer? 



Mr. Kellogg : I think burlap is one of the best protectors we 

 can use on our trees, and I think rye straw is better still'; it will 

 go into the crotch of the tree. 



Mr. Taylor: Have you ever tried newspaper? 



Mr. Kellogg: Yes, it has to be applied twice a year unless you 

 get a good horticultural paper; any others will not do. (Laughter.) 



The Chairman : Have you had any trouble with the Virginia 

 crab blighting in the crotch? 



Mr. Kellogg: I have not. 



The Chairman: I have seen it injured very much. 



Mr. Busse : Which of those varieties that you have mentioned 

 is the most healthy and bears the most fruit ? 



Mr. Kellogg: That beautiful apple called the Hibernal bore 

 the best, and it sold at a good price and was satisfactory. The 

 Okabena was next. The Hamilton is a new variety and is doing 

 very well. It is an Illinois variety. Patten's Greening is doing well. 

 The foliage was good, and the wood made of good growth. The 

 Peerless as a tree was all right, but the fruit was scabby. The Long- 

 field was loaded to breaking, and but for the scab it would have 

 been very profitable. The Longfield did not blight. 



The Chairman : Not much blight this year ? 



Mr. Kellogg: Very little. 



The Chairman: I have heard the Hibernal referred to in a 

 very slighting way. I have been an advocate of the Hibernal. I 

 think the Hibernal is the safest' tree for the amateur to plant. I 

 wish I had a bushel or two in my cellar right now ; I think there is 

 nothing better for apple sauce or pie. 



Mr. Benjamin: That is the only apple tree and apple that is 

 perfectly healthy. 



The Chairman : As a rule I have not found the Hibernal as 

 productive as other apples, but it is an apple that possesses the ability 

 to do business long after other varieties of apples have disappeared. 



Mr. O. W. Moore : The wood blighted on my trees this year. 



The Chairman: It will blight on new wood, but it recovers 

 very quickly. 



Mr. Busse : We can always look for fruit on the Hibernal, and 

 large fruit, and after a customer buys it once he wants it again. 

 Mr. Cook: He doesn't down our way. 



Mr. Busse : Thev never blight in the crotches, but in the new 

 growth. They never blighted before, but this year everything 

 blighted except the Peerless. 



Seed Distribution in Grand Rapids.— In Grand Rapids, Michigan, 

 this spring, the committee on municipal health and beauty of the ladies' lit- 

 erary club will distribute 15,000 packages of flower and vegetable seeds 

 among the children of the public schools at one cent a package. Each school 

 will be supplied with a list of directions as to the time and manner of planting 

 the various seeds and bulbs. Exhibits of the flowers and vegetables grown 

 from these seeds will be held in the fall, as they were last season.. 



