a few seasons ago, and they are thrifty, they have never winter ‘ . 
killed, have borne every year. The plum is very large, it is a 
handsome plum and of superior quality; it is a very vena 
market plum. 
Mr. D. T. Wheaton: I have the Desota, Weaver, Cheney, 
Wolf and Forest Garden, and all have done well with me. The 
Desota is the best. The best three are the Desota, Wolf and 
Weaver. 
Mrs. Stager: The Weaver is not doing anything in our part 
of the country. The fruit, after it gets to the size of a pea, 
blights and rots and dries up. It may be the difference in the 
climate up there. 
Mrs Kennedy: Is the Wolf a free bearer early? I have 
some that bore very late. Is that a general characteristic? 
Mr. Wheaton: The trees that I have came into bearing very 
early, while small. 
Mr. Doughty: I have had afew plums on the trees of the 
Wolf in the nursery row. 
OUR REPORTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARIES. 
(A DISCUSSION.) 
Mr. A. K. Bush: I have a matter I would like to bring before the 
society before Prof. Pendergast leaves, and that is, that the surplus 
copies of our reports be placed in the libraries of the district 
schools. Many of them are building up libraries, and he knows 
where they could be placed to the best advantage. They make an 
up-to-date text book which is revised every year. It will be an ex- 
cellent way of finding out what is going on in our agricultural 
school, and, again, if they wish to take up the study of wild flowers 
they have the best kind of text in the paper we listened to yesterday 
by the lady from Lake City. The reports would be excellent for 
reference, and I think they would be well placed if they were putin 
those Jibraries. 
Prof. Pendergast: If Ican do anything to help the matter along 
I shall be glad todo it. Of course, I presume those who applied 
first would get them, and only those would apply who were 
interested. 
Sec’y Latham: How many such libraries are there in the state? 
Prof. Pendergast: Over two thousand. 
Sec’y Latham: It would be necessary to add something like that 
number to our published report and bind them all in cloth. 
Mr. Bush: If that matter were brought before the legislature, 
I think they would be glad to give us the necessary assistance 
that those books might be placed in every school library in the 
state. 
