lOO THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



stands ocean transit well if sent off before Christmas. When 

 trees will return $i.oo each, $320 from an acre is better than 

 $40, and it is possible to get this the fifth year from the 

 Wagener or Wealthy apples, or from plums. The cultiva- 

 tion can be easily adapted to the low-branched trees. I 

 believe thoroughly in the thinning out of all superfluous, 

 small or imperfect fruit in July. In plums, good dessert 

 fruit cannot be grown without this. I grow the Japan plums 

 wholly for dessert, and pack them regularly with paper 

 between the two layers, in five-pound square packages simi- 

 lar to the California package ; twelve of these packages go 

 in a sixty-pound crate. In this way more than double the 

 price is realized over the ordinary plums in ordinary baskets. 

 My cultivation in older orchards is done with eight-foot 

 harrows, and one man can cultivate comfortably fifteen acres 

 per day, going over the ninety odd acres about once a week. 

 I believe thoroughly in the use of thick paint in all pruning 

 or surgical work among trees and the use of some potash 

 wash occasionally on the bodies of the trees to keep them 

 clean and healthy. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Hubbard : When do you market your Wagener 

 apples ? 



Mr. Eaton : ^^'e mean to sliip them in December, as a 

 rule. In our colder countries they would stand up well 

 enough to be shipped in January, but the W^agener is a little 

 disposed to deteriorate underneath the skin if kept too late. 

 We have been shipping them in January to England, but 

 sometimes they have not arrived in good condition. Our 

 Baldwins are also disposed to show the same trouble under 

 the skin if left too long before they are shipped to market. 

 I think it is always safer to ship the Wagener in December. 

 We usually make our last shipments of Autumn varieties so 

 that they will land in England about December first. 



The President : I suppose, Mr. Eaton, that where you 

 plant the trees thickly, you say in your paper, that after they 

 get up to a certain point you have to begin to thin the trees 



