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The Climax and Sultan we have not fruited, but friends over 

 on the Hudson River tell us that both are going to be good 

 plums. 



A Member: How about the Wickson? 



Mr. Butler : With us it has not been satisfactory. The tree 

 is not as it should be. The fruit is not satisfactory in size. The 

 color is very good, but we have been troubled a good deal with 

 the rot; in fact, more so wuth it than on other plums of its 

 season. 



Mr. Innis : Do you spray for the plum rot? 

 • Mr. Butler: We cannot spray after the leaves are out. I 

 believe it would be all right to spray next month (March). But 

 we have done nothing but pick off the rot as fast as it has 

 appeared. We have gone over our orchards many times in the 

 early fruit season to get off the plums that were beginning to 

 show signs of monilia. 



Mr. Innis: Do you find that the spraying in any way lessens 

 the rot ? 



Mr. Butler : We have depended entirely upon picking. 



Mr. Beckwith : Is there any difference in the effect of the 

 winter on the x^bundance and Burbank? 



Mr. Butler : Why, I should not say there was any difference. 

 Both of them seem to be perfectly hardy. There are times that 

 the Abundance has been affected more by late frosts than the 

 Burbank. But so far as winter is concerned, it has not affected 

 either of them with us, but with one exception, and that only 

 very slightly. 



A Member: Mr. President, can we take up question 7? 



The President : "What is the Best Stock on which to Bud 

 the Japan Plum?" 



Mr. Butler: I am perfectly satisfied that the peach is the 

 best stock to bud on. I think the union between the peach and 

 the Japan plum is more satisfactory. 



Mr. Innis: I should just like to say in regard to budding on 

 peach and plum stock that my experience is right the reverse. 

 Those budded on the plum give a good crop while those budded 

 on the peach have never given me anything at all. I do not 

 know how to account for it. 



A Member: I would like to inquire of Mr. Butler, is there 

 any difference of the life of these when budded upon one or the 

 other ? 



