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the trees can make good fruit of; then prune your trees out so the 

 sunliglit can enter and ripen the fruit. I don't believe in thinning 

 out the fruit and leaving twice as many branches as ought to be on 

 the tree, but prune intelligently and I think the fruit will be all 

 rigiit. 



Of one more pest I wish to speak, and then I will close. That is 

 the apple maggot. This little insect is, comparatively speaking, a 

 new comer, and we all should study how best to receive him, and 

 also how to get rid of him. We find them most common in our 

 early fruits, in sweet apples especially. I know of some orchard- 

 ists, when they find their fruit infested with the maggot, who leave 

 the fruit on the ground to decay, which is most decidedly wrong. 

 My experience with this pest in my orchards has been confined to 

 two varieties of sweet apples — one a fall apple, the other a winter 

 apple. I first discovered them three j'ears ago in the early fruit, 

 and two years ago I discovered them in the winter variety. My 

 method of treatment has been this : To gather the fruit as soon as I 

 discovered them in the apple, cook the apples and then feed them to 

 the hogs. In this way I believe we can exterminate this most 

 dangerous pest. In fact, it worked so well that in the case of the 

 Avinter sweet apple I failed to find one of them infested with the 

 maggot at the time of harvesting last fall. So I put them in the 

 cellar and used them as we wanted until gone, without finding one 

 afiected. If any one has a better mode of disposing of them than 

 mine I want to know what it is. 



The Committee on the President's Address presented the following 



REPORT. 



The committee appointed to consider the address of the Presi- 

 dent beg leave to report : First, that they approve of his sugges- 

 tion of the desirabilit}' of teaching horticulture in our schools, and 

 that to aid this, public lectures be delivered from time to time by 

 prominent men versed in the subject. Second, the suggestion iu 

 the address upon the manner of packing fruit is an impoitaut one, 

 and they recommend that it be taken into consideration by all our 

 fruit growers and fruit dealers ; for the reputation which we have 

 already established in the European market is an excellent one, 

 second to that of no other country, and it is very desirable that this 

 reputation be not only sustained, but be still further advanced by 



