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thing he could do so it would not be an eyesore, and I went to 
work to do the same thing I did on my own grounds; I simply 
took a team and went out in the woods and gathered every 
kind of fern I could find, planting the larger and coarsest kind 
near the wall and the finer near the front. It happened to be 
rainy weather, and they grew finely. Wasit nice? You may 
judge from the fact that within a month from that time I had 
more than a dozen calls from different people asking me if I 
could not fix up something of the same kind. And that man 
says today that his friends, some of whom have spent ten to 
twenty dollars in green to fix up around their windows, all 
congratulated him on what he had, and wanted to know how 
he gotit. There are many of those little things growing about 
in the woods that can be secured without cost that will make 
home more beautiful. 
SPRAYING. 
A DISCUSSION. 
Mr. L. R. Bryant, (Illinois): Some of the “suckers” do not know a 
great deal more than you people doup here onthat score. We may 
not know as much as we thought we did a few years ago. There has 
been a great deal of spraying done there and with varying results. 
With some of the spraying that was done with us near Princeton, 
several times we thought we had the best of results; then again we 
sprayed under what we thought similar circumstances and condi- 
tions, and we could not see any different results than we would 
have had without spraying. There is no question but what spray- 
ing will do some good if carried out carefully and systematically, 
but it has got to be doneinacertain way. If you understand the 
cause and effect, you may have some good results. There has been 
a great deal of spraying done with us, and the results were some- 
times very favorable, then again very unfavorable. Weare going 
to continue spraying. We have been using considerable Bordeaux 
mixture. One great trouble this year has been scab. Take the Wil- 
low Twig, for instance. This year we had an orchard that bore very 
well; but the tree, leaves and fruit were covered with a sort ofa 
scab. I think we have got to follow up spraying systematically 
year after year, and we have done enough to think we can accom- 
plish something by following it up. We have got to do it even if 
we do not get acrop ofapples. In spraying for fungus and for the 
codling moth we sometimes seem to have very good results, but 
some of our neighbors who do not spray have just as good a crop 
of fruit, so we must know just how to do it and when to doit in order 
to get the best results. 
The President: How many in the room didany spraying on their 
apple trees and other fruit trees this past year? There are seven 
people who did spraying; I would like to hear from them as to the 
results they obtained. 
