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about 8 feet by 20, running the rows north and south, and 

 that made a good way to take care of them. If you get the 

 trees too far apart they will lop into each other, but if they 

 are close together they Mill spread out sideways. 



THE PRESIDENT : That is a new doctrine to me. 



QUESTION: Have you grown the Flemish Beauty? 



MR. HITTINGER: I have seen them, but not a great 

 many. I don't know whether you could sell them or not. 



A MEMBER : We have a few, and they seem to be about 

 as good as any I have seen. 



MR. HITTINGER : It is a nice pear. 



THE PRESIDENT: I shouldn't suppose there would be 

 any great difficulty in disposing of good Flemish Beauty 

 pears, if they were sound and clean. 



MR. SMITH: How long have those trees stood that you 

 planted about 20 feet apart and 8 feet in the row? 



MR. HITTINGER: I have some that were planted 12 or 

 15 years ago. A year or so ago I cleaned them out. 



I\IR. SMITH : And you had good results at that dis- 

 tance? 



:\IR. HITTINGER: Fine results. I have one that was 

 planted that way about 12 years ago, and I have had seven or 

 eight good crops. Once I got two or three crops one year 

 right after the other. 



A MEMBER: There are a good many that say that the 

 Bosc has to be double-worked, onto another stock that has 

 already been worked in, and I want to find out whether that 

 is so or not. 



:\IR. HITTINGER : I notice some of these trees that we 

 have grafted the Bosc into will do a great deal better than 

 some other. The Worden Seckle seems to grow all right, 

 and the Anjou is a good stock to graft the Bosc into. In 

 grafting I have always had the very best success in grafting 

 the whole tree. Years ago they used to graft three or four 

 limbs this year and two or three next year. I would rather 

 graft all and let the suckers grow around the body of the 

 tree for a year or two. and, as the graft gets up and you cut 



