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right to be much more coarse. Consequently, it would not 

 spray as easily nor make so good a coat of Bordeaux on the 

 plants being treated. 



President Gulley : On the program you will notice that 

 the next paper was to have been on the ''Production and 

 Marketing of Apples." \\'e will be obliged to omit this, having 

 received word from '\lr. Cross of Poughkeepsie, New York, 

 that he is detained at home by sickness in the family. In place 

 of that, we are to have the pleasure of listening to an address 

 which is in some degree a continuation of the subject which 

 has occupied our attention this afternoon. I now have the 

 pleasure; of introducing Prof. W. J. Greene of Wooster, Ohio, 

 the well-known Horticulturist of the Ohio Experiment Station, 

 whom we are very fortunate in having with us. 



Professor Greene's Address. 



Mr. President and Members of the Penological Society: 



This question of grass mulching is now attracting a great deal 

 of attention, for many people believe it will have a great influ- 

 ence on fruit culture in the future ; largely because it will 

 extend operations where they could not be carried out satis- 

 factorily by any other method. 



I came here, principally, to hear what ]\Ir. Hale and I\Ir. 

 Collingwood had to say. Out in Ohio we have conditions 

 something like yours in Connecticut. \\'e may not have as 

 many stones in our fields, but we have fully as hard a soil 

 to till, and if we are going to grow orchards, we must find 

 some other method than the ordinary one of cultivation. But 

 I have been much interested in what has .been said here. 



There have been many difficulties in our way, out in Ohio. 

 Things are not just as we would like to have them. This mulch 

 method seems to be about the only plan we can adopt. I 

 am going to tell you about two orchards, one we will call ]\Ir. 

 Vergon's, and the other ]Mr. Hitchings'. These gentlemen 

 have been working along the same lines. ]\Ir. \''ergon's soil 

 is not, perhaps, as good as ]\Ir. Hitchings', but both are doing 

 well. In this grass-mulch method, so far as they have gone, 

 there has been a great deal of encouragement. ^Ir. A^ergon 



