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Question. Is the cellar wet, or dry? 



Mr. Whittier. Wet. The water runs into it in the spring. 



Question. Do 3'ou use an}' other method ? 



Mr. Whittier. Yes, I store some in barrels. 



Question. Do you ever store in bulk? 



Mr. Whittier. Yes, I store in large bins partitioned off as be- 

 fore stated, 



Mr. Nelson. I have always put my apples in large bins, and 

 have taken three hundred barrels from one bin. I do not believe in 

 having them too near the ceiling. The larger the bin the smaller 

 the number of poor apples. I have often found the best apples 

 nearest the bottom ot the bin. 



Question. What is the disadvantage in having them deep? 



Mr. Whittier. It makes too much pressure on the apples at the 

 bottom. 



Mr. Nelson. I believe the less surface exposed the better. 



Mr. Whittier. I never have any trouble with that. 



Question. Do you carry them neaily to the floor? 



Mr. Nelson. Yes. 



EVENING SESSION. 



A very large audience was present in Music Hall at the evening 

 session, and at 7.30 the meeting was called to order b}' President 

 Pope. Previous to the opening of the literary' exercises the audience 

 was favored with a piano duet, finely rendered by Mrs. Frank 

 McLeery and Miss Agnes Allen. The first essay was on Floricul- 

 ture for Children, by Mrs. Sarah B. Purington of the State Normal 

 School, Farmington. 



FLORICULTURE FOR CHILDREN— FLOWERS IN HISTORY, 



POETRY AND SONG. 



By Mrs. Sarah B. Purington. 



The little gardener whom I have in mind was three years old, a 

 sturdy little boy in a gray Mother Hubbard, not taller than the garden 

 gate through which he trotted, with a box of morning-glory seeds in 

 his baby hand. 



Walking the length of the garden, he soon returned to the house 

 and scattered his seeds under the dining-room windows. He had 

 been examining seeds, had watched the vigorous growth of a hand- 



