Tenth Annual Meeting 



89 



Blue Ridge and Alleghany regions, where the stones are so 

 thick a man could not get in with a horse, show still another. 

 If any of my friends are going to cultivate orchards in those 

 regions I would advise them to take on a big life insurance, 

 and a good sized accident policy. Then have two or three 



Fig. II. — A thirty-foot sheet tent covering a sixteen-foot trc 

 taken November 6. 1897, by W. G. Johnson. 



Photograph 



big kites hitched to you for safety. Yet some of the hand- 

 somest fruit grown comes from trees in those regions. The 

 most of that ground has never been cultivated and seems to 

 be wonderfully adapted for fruit growing. You could not spray 

 unless you carried the solution and the pump on your back. 

 Much has been said about fumigation, and much has been 



