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Prof. Green: I think it would be all right if it was done 

 properly. It would restrict the flow of sap and probably set it 

 into bearing. 



Mr. Wm. Sommerville: I do not think it would have any 

 effect at that time. Take it when the bark peels, and it would 

 fruit the next year. 



Prof. Green: A girdle an inch wide w^ould remain open a 

 whole season. 



Dr. Frisselle: I remember a case where a gentleman girdled 

 most of the branches on a young tree that had refused to bear 

 for several years. It had blossomed, but it did not bear fruit; 

 he girdled most of the limbs just after blossoming, or about 

 blossoming time, and the result was that he had an abundance 

 of fruit that year. 



President Underwood: Is there any one here that, has had 

 any experience with the sand cherry ? 



Mr. Harris: My experience with the sand cherry is too 

 short to make much comment on it. Last spring Prof. Green 

 sent me down a bundle of sand cherry stocks, and wished me 

 to try them. I put in about seventy five and grafted Desota 

 plums on them, and about 90 per cent, of them grew. I think 

 it is a success with the Desota plum. I was nearly through 

 grafting when I received them, and did not try any other 

 variety, but they have done so well that we shall try a few of 

 the other varieties. I think the proper way when you get it on 

 its own roots is to proi)agate by root cuttings. I know the 

 sprouts are a nuisance, but if the tree is a good one you will 

 wish it had sprouted a great deal more than it did, and if any 

 accident befalls the tree you still have a shoot of the same 

 variety which will grow perfectly true and bear as good fruit 

 as the old tree. I believe this is the best method of propa 

 gating our native plums. I also believe there are a great many 

 varieties of apples we find in this country that would be a 

 greater success than by grafts. I have in mind an apple 

 tree that grows down in the state of Illinois. I called the 

 attention of this society to it two years ago. A man had a 

 seedling apple tree that had been cut off, and the sprouts came 

 up and he began to set out those sprouts in his orchard where 

 other trees were missing. I saw that orchard a few years ago; 

 there was only one variety, and the trees stood the winter per- 

 fectly. I got a few scions of that tree, but it has never done 

 anything except in the state of Illinois. I believe there are 

 varieties here, if we could propagate them on their own 



