54 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



If you i^et a cold, wet season, it is almost impossible to get a 

 good crop of melons. 



]\rR. KiLLAM : Why is it Red Astrachans are almost a 

 total failure? I have not been able to get more than a bushel 

 in the last three years. 



A Member: I have two or three Red Astrachan trees 

 that I don't have any trouble in getting fruit from, if I put on 

 good fertiHzer. I get a good color and good fruit if I pick 

 them at the right time, and I got $1.50 a bushel this year for 

 them. 



Mr. Phelps : Do you know of anyone Avho is growing 

 melons under cloth with success ? 



Dr. Clinton : No ; they did some work at the Massa- 

 chusetts experiment station along that line, but the experi- 

 ments did not prove of much practical value. 



^Member: Do they blight just as badly? 



Dr. Clinton : I think so. 



Mr. Hixon, of Worcester : In regard to raising mel- 

 ons. George McClellan. gardener for the A\'hitneys, has been 

 interested in raising the ^Montreal melons for several years, 

 but had no success until he got some seed from ^Montreal, and 

 for the last three years he has raised larger and better mel- 

 ons than any I have ever seen from ^Montreal. Last year he 

 raised two melons that weighed 29 and 27 pounds, respec- 

 tively. \\'hen cut, the quality was said to be very fine. He 

 planted his seeds out-of-doors with a frame of four little 

 pieces of board about the hill, covered with a 3 x 3 sash for 

 a little while, until they became well established. He is not 

 troubled with blight or fungous growth. 



In regard to the gentleman's question about Red Astra- 

 chan apples. I have had experience in growing Sweet Bough, 

 Mcintosh Red, Northern Spy, and almost every apple that 

 grows, and for some reason or other, some years, under cer- 

 tain climatic conditions, they will almost fail in their crop, and 

 the next year you will get a fine crop of splendid fruit from 

 the same trees. 



Mr. Moss, of JNIassachusetts : In regard to apples : Is 

 it true that the fellows in the vallevs must grive way to those 



