404 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I had the pleasure of meeting with him at two or three ses- 

 sions of the state society and of seeing him occasionally at other 

 times. He impressed me as being a person of unusual sincerity, 

 force and decision of character, and what seems like his untimely 

 death comes to us who are more closely allied to the purposes of 

 the organization as a distinct shock, the cutting off of one of the 

 strong arms of the society upon whom we could lean with steady 

 assurance that its strength was to be relied on. To those who 

 were more often in contact with him than was my good fortune, 

 the loss must be a proportionately severer one. He has left a record 

 of which his friends may be justly proud. Secretary. 



DISCUSSION ON NEW METHOD OF GRAFTING. 



(Following illustrated article by \\'yman Elliot on page 146, 



April 'No.j 



Mr. Brackett: I would like to ask Mr. Elliot how long af- 

 ter he pinches out the top of the graft that has grown eight or ten 

 inches, how long will it be before it will mature a bud and start 

 to grow again? 



Mr. Elliot: I have never run that down systematically, but 

 it does not take a great while. Sometimes the bud will go right 

 on growing. The difference is all in the different varieties. 



Mr. Busse : I pinched some last summer, and within two 

 weeks they sprouted from below. 



Mr. A. B. Lyman : Where you had two scions and both 

 grew, would you cut one out afterward or allow both to grow? 



Mr. Elliot: It all depends upon what your union is. If you 

 have a good strong union you will have no trouble. The trouble 

 with the trees is in the crotches ; a break occurs, they keep spread- 

 ing apart, and after awhile the water gets in. and away goes 

 your tree. 



Mr. Underwood : What do }'ou wax with ? 



Mr. Elliot: With common grafting wax. I went to the 

 hardware store and got a pot that was manufactured for a glue 

 pot. I put a little water in the outside vessel and the wax in 

 the top vessel ; then I put over it a six inch stovepipe and nick 

 the ends and hang it so it will hold a lamp underneath, and that 

 will keep the wind from blowing out the light — and on very windy 

 days I sometimes have to carry a sack around with me and throw 

 it around the bottom. Some of you people may have better ar- 

 rangements. 



The Chairman : Mr. Underwood has experience, we would 

 like to hear from him on this subject. 



Mr. J. M. Underwood : Practically what Mr. Elliot says in 

 regard to waxing the top is the method we emplov. We have a 

 scheme now wherebv we use a wood alcohol lamp for keeping the 



