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left, and the suppression of the peach yellows cost money. 

 That is all there was to it. 



"Now 1 happened to grow some very nice Northern Spy 

 apples. They were grown on land that had not been plowed 

 in I don't know how many years. I don't know when the 

 trees were set out. I presume they were grafted, but I don't 

 know when. They never were sprayed; and that ground was 

 mowed year after year, and reduced in fertility, but it was 

 somehow enriched naturally, just as we all admit now that 

 land can be, and I think I grew as good Northern Spy apples 

 on that land as were grown in Connecticut, and it was done 

 without spraying, without plowing, and without any sort of 

 artificial regulation, still they were there. It shows what can 

 be accomplished if you let nature alone occasionally. 



"Mr. Hale spoke about cherries. I don't know whether 

 you can make a market for Connecticut cherries or not, but 

 I know that the Connecticut hills will grow cherries, and they 

 will grow most excellent cherries, but like a great many other 

 fruit, they are short-lived, and so far as I know, they are only 

 good for immediate consumption. I don't know of any place 

 where you can grow fruit like the California cherries that can 

 be carried three thousand miles and still be good and fresh, 

 but I can grow cherries on these Connecticut hills that I 

 would a good deal rather have to eat, and I don't know why 

 we can't make a market for them." 



At this point the hall was darkened and Prof. W. G. John- 

 son delivered a very interesting lecture upon "Experiences and 

 Scenes in the Most Remarkable Peach Orchards of America," 

 illustrated with a large number of slides. Professor Johnson 

 took his audience on a most enjoyable trip through the extensive 

 orchards in the mountains of western Maryland and Virginia 

 and by means of lantern slides reproduced the work and methods 

 of those successful mountain fruit-growers. 



The lecture was supplemented with views of the Georgia 



peach orchards of Ex -President Hale at Fort Valley. 



[As the many views cannot be reproduced here and since the text of the 

 lecture would not be clear without them we reluctantly omit it. — Editor.] 



Mr. Farnham of New Haven: "After Professor Britton's 

 remarks in regard to legislation on the San Jose scale, I think it 



