Notes and Gleanings. 171 



" To tell how to save trees injured in this way will be to tell how I saved over 

 a hundred trees, seven years planted, completely girdled by mice in my orchard 

 a year ago last month. There had been for some time a heavy snow on the 

 ground ; and mice being plenty and in a starving condition, with nothing else to 

 eat, they ate all the bark from the trees so far as they could reach, some of them 

 for a foot up and down all around, and portions of the sap-wood all around, some 

 of them at least half an inch deep. As soon as the damage was discovered, — 

 which was the first thawing days, — I banked the snow up around them for a foot 

 above the injury; then, as fast as the soil thawed enough, I banked with it about 

 the trees to the same height. This was all the attention they received ; and to- 

 day they have all the damaged parts covered by almost as thick a coating of 

 bark as the uninjured portion of trees. My directions, therefore, for saving 

 trees girdled by mice or other means, would be to follow the practice used to save 

 my own when girdled within a reasonable distance of the ground : when done 

 higher up, this course would be impracticable, and we should have to look to 

 some other covering than soil to protect the surface until a new bark was depos- 

 ited. Common clay may be used for this purpose. If too high up to reach by 

 banking, bind the clay on it. The sooner the surface is protected after injury, 

 the better. The death of the tree, when girdled, is caused by the seasoning of 

 the sap-wood." 



List of Pears. — The Committee on Pears reported the following list : — 



Slimmer. — Bartlett, Doyenne d'Ete, Tyson, Rostiezer. 



Autumn. — Flemish Beauty, Howell, Belle Lucrative, Duchessed'Angouleme, 

 Louise Bonne de Jersey, Seckel. 



Winter. — Winter Nelis, Lawrence. This list was adopted. 



At the evening session. Dr. Gregory, Regent of the Illinois Industrial Uni- 

 versity, addressed the convention on the objects and aims of the institution 

 which it was his pleasure to represent. The address was listened to very 

 attentively and with great interest. 



Dr. Gregory was followed by Dr. Warder on the grape. With a grape-vine 

 in his hand, and his whole soul thrown into his subject, he was listened to till 

 a late hour with marked attention. 



After Dr. Warder's address, Mr. Cochrane offered a resolution, that the Con- 

 cord, Hartford Prolific, Clinton, and Connecticut Valley, are the only profitable 

 varieties for cultivation in Northern Illinois. 



The resolution elicited considerable discussion, but was finally adopted. 



Mr. Douglas of Waukegan moved that the Delaware be added to the list for 

 cultivation in special localities. 



Mr. Rosensteil of Freeport said, that, with proper propagation, it would grow 

 with good culture where any grape grows. He had known the grape in Germany 

 many years before it was known in this country, and was most positive it was 

 a foreign grape. It was known in Germany under the name of Gutedel. The 

 report of its being an American seedling, he says, is a humbug. 



The Delaware was added to the list. 



Currants. — At the morning session of the third day, the Committee ou 

 Cui rants recommended the following varieties for general cultivation : — 



