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knowledge 1 learned to regard them widi little favor. [ have 

 come to the conclusion, after an experience of twenty vears 

 with them, that they are a good thing for the greenhouse or 

 for rich men, who have gardeners to care for them, but when 

 you come to utility and putting them up against standard trees 

 for making a profitable living, they are an abomination, in my 

 judgment. So as to take up little room I set them six feet 

 apart, according to rule. They are such a tangled mass to-day 

 I would be ashamed to ask an}one to look at them ; they grow 

 so fast I can do nothing with them. There is no profit in them 

 and no satisfaction for a man who has to earn his living through 

 them. Another thing they say that the San Jose scale will 

 not touch them. That is a preposterous idea. The scale will 

 attack the dwarf as quickly as the standard varieties. 



J\Ir. Hale: I would like to make a motion that the di- 

 rectors of our State Agricultural College send Professor Gul- 

 ley to school to Brother Smith before he is allowed to plant 

 any more dwarf trees. (Applause.) 



Mr. J. NoRRis Barnes: It happens that we have about 

 a thousand dwarf trees planted out. We have not proceeded 

 far enough yet to tell you what they will do; they are certainly 

 good growers, and they look to me as though they would do 

 some business for us ; I am not scared yet. 



Question 25 : Is Chairs' Choice peach a shy bearer, and 

 on what soil does it succeed best? 



Mr. J. Norrls Barnes: In regard to the fruiting quali- 

 ties of Chairs' Choice peach, would say that on some soils 

 and in some localities it is productive of large yields of fruit 

 of most excellent quality. To be at its best, this variety 

 seems to need a soil that is quite strong — a good loam soil. 



While I have in mind localities where it has been, or is, 

 one of the most profitable varieties grown, we have not found 

 it productive enough to be profitable, although planted on land 

 thought to be superior in quality to any other in the orchard. 

 The lot of trees under consideration were planted in 1896-7 

 and removed in 1907, a ten-year period. 



The tree is a strong, vigorous grower, tender in wood and 



