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fall just as soon as the frost has spoiled things. You can burn 

 rubbish over the ground, put on a good dressing of salt, and freeze 

 them out by spading up as late as possible. Mr. Eckford recom- 

 mended gas lime, and some of you saw an account of the way 

 Semple, the great Aster man, ploughs unslacked lime into his soil. 

 The fall is a grand time for making a piece of ground very 

 unpleasant for cutworms or their eggs. I find virtue in the 

 bran and Paris green treatment. A pail of bran with a table- 

 spoonful of the poison stirred in, and sweetened a little, and sown 

 on the surface, or lightly hoed in in the spring, is a simple remedy. 

 Diverting the ciitworms by planting something of no value along- 

 side for them to feed on helps to save some choice things, but 

 you will enjoy your breakfast better if, Samson-like, you go out 

 and slay a hundred of them as an appetizer. The only thing this 

 good advice lacks is some professional charge, for we follow 

 advice only when we pay for it. 



The past two seasons have brought another pest : I call it a 

 louse ; perhaps you would call it red spider. It begins at the 

 base of the vine and colonizes on the under side of the foliage. 

 Its presence will be seen by the whitish, translucent spots on the 

 leaves. It must be gone at vigorously either with tobacco tea or 

 a strong force on the hose sprinkler. I used the latter, but with 

 the excess of rain last year it did make the vines grow most won- 

 derfully at an expense of bloom. Last year was surely an " off " 

 year and does not count. The other rules for culture are simple 

 and threadbare. Bush or trellis strongly, and so as to give them 

 room to ramble. Water freely after the blooming period comes, 

 but not too much before. Eun the rows north and south to give 

 them both the morning and afternoon sun. You are favorably 

 situated here for easy success in this flower — almost anywhere 

 near the sea coast they thrive. 



Discussion, 



President Appleton here retired and the chair was taken by 

 Vice-President Benjamin P. Ware. 



In reply to an inquiry the lecturer advised for cutworms to 

 use six quarts of salt to one square rod. He said he would never 

 trench again, at least not deeper than the ordinary furrow, 



Ex-President James F. C. Hyde said he had suffered from the 

 blight. His vines have grown as high as ten feet. He said he 



