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W. Koy, Owen Sound^, prunes in June and July; pares any wounds 

 oiade by the saw with a sharp knife, and when the wound is dry 

 paints it with linseed oil. He prunes pear trees but very little. The 

 grape vines he lays down on the ground in the fall, and they are pro- 

 tected by the snow. 



James Wallis, Peterboro', said pear trees generally do not do well 

 here, those that go unpruned do the best. Plum trees need but very 

 little pruning. 



The meeting now proceeded to the subject of 

 TRANSPLANTING SEASON. 



Fitzgerald, Peterboro', prefers spring planting, and mulching with 

 strawy manure. Makes the soil fine and tramps it firmly about the roots.. 



Edwards, Peterboro', also prefers the spring, though he had never 

 tried fall planting. He plants with care, and seldom loses a tree. 



W. Jackson, Peterboro, said thafe as his soil was damp he planted 

 shallow, and did not tramp the soil about the roots. Some Maple trees 

 that he transplanted died he believed in consequence of the tramping^ 

 of the soil about the roots, for some of them that did not get tramped 

 lived. It is important that the soil be got in good order, and the roots^ 

 spread out with care. Prefers the spring. 



S. T. Carver, Peterboro': I never lost a tree in planting; set them 

 the same depth as they grew before, make the soil very fine and settle 

 it about the roots with water, then mulch and stake each tree. I 

 plant only in the spring. 



Thos. Allum, l*eterboro', tried fall planting but the trees did not 

 do well ; spring planting succeeds well. Shortens in the head when 

 planting. 



Judge Macpherson, Owen Sound, plants in the spring, and finds- 

 from experience that this is the best time. 



P. E. Bucke, Ottawa, thought that tlie failure in transplanting 

 would be very much less if the trees were prepared for it in the 

 nursery by frequent removals. The purchaser could weU afford to pay 

 a higher price for trees that had been thus prepared before being sold,, 

 for they would rarely fail to grow. 



Chas. Arnold, Paris, would .indorse what Mr. Bucke had said on 

 the preparation of trees for their final removal by frequent transplanting 



