OBITUARY OF J. C. PLUMB. 155 



As a Christian gentleman, as a man with an excellent character, 

 as an earnest worker, an upright honest citizen, a man of good 

 habits — in short, what the world terms a clean man — the men that 

 would excel J. C. Plumb are very scarce. But he has gone, and his 

 works and example will be a monument to his memory. — A. J. 

 Phillips, Sec'y- Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. 



Mr. J. C. Plumb at the time of his death had been an honorary- 

 life member of this society for fifteen years. On the fifteenth 

 day of January, 1884, at the annual meeting, as the record goes, 

 "upon motion of Mr. Peter M. Gideon, it was voted to make Mr. 

 Plumb an honorary life member of this society in consideration 

 of his long and useful service in western horticulture." That 

 tells the story concisely of the position he then occupied in the 

 esteem of his fraternity. Fifteen years have gone since that 

 event, and each passing year has found him more secure in this 

 position. 



In this great loss to the Wisconsin Society and its members, 

 we share and carry with them a common grief and mourn a 

 common bereavement. His name will ever be associated not 

 alone with Wisconsin, but with nortJiivestern horticulture. 



Sec'y. 



Mice Injuring Apple Trees.— W. W.: Probably most of the 

 apple trees in your orchard can be saved by covering the injured 

 portions with grafting wax and then banking up around the base 

 so that the top of the soil will be an inch or two above the top of the 

 injury. Keep this banked up the entire season, and in many cases 

 your trees will recover. If the bark is removed all the way around, 

 it will probably pay best to take out the trees and put in new ones. 

 It is dot likely that such will fully recover. 



Georgia's Peach Loss.— The warmer weather throughout the 

 peach-growing sections of Georgia has served to intensify rather 

 than diminish evidences of damage. It is now everywhere agreed 

 that the cold wave practically destroyed the peach crop of '99. All 

 testify along this line. The trees are rapidly putting on leaves, but 

 as a rule no blooms are in sight. 



Nuts for Planting.— Gather the nuts (walnuts, hickory nuts, 

 hazelnuts, pits of peaches, etc.), place in a rough bag and bury in 

 the garden about a foot deep. By the time the frost is well out of 

 the ground in the spring the shells will have burst and the nuts 

 can be placed in a bed especially prepared for them or put where 

 the trees are to stand. 



