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The canes of the Red Antwerp raspberry are winter killed unless 

 protected. 



Apricots, nectarines, and quinces grow rapidly, but have not borne 

 fruit long enough with us to be tested. 



We have two horticultural societies, one in middle and the other 

 in southern Iowa. Their influence will make a great advance in the 

 cultivation of fruits in Iowa, and in another year, you may expect 

 reports from both. 



In great haste, your ob't serv't, 



JA'S GRANT, 

 Chairman Com., Iowa. 



KENTUCKY. 



[We extract the following hint, which has the promise of useful- 

 ness in it, from a letter addressed to the Convention by the chairman 

 of the committee for Ky. Chairman Gen. Fruit Com.] 



Not a single incident has occurred, within the range of my obser- 

 vation, in any degree interesting to the cause of the cultivator, unless 

 it should be some trial made by myself with lime in preventing the 

 ravages of the Curculio on smooth skinned fruits, the result of which 

 I have reported to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and of 

 lime, also, as a destroyer of the tetter of cocci, or white scale insects, 

 which infest the Orange family and the Oleander. A few trees of 

 oranges and lemons, which have for a long time been disfigured and 

 enfeebled by myriads of cocci, were last fall so completely dusted 

 with lime as to seem white-washed in every part ; and the adhesive 

 property of lime kept them white, notwithstanding the action of the 

 syringe during winter. The result was an entire destruction of every 

 coccus — to the extent that none have since appeared. The trees are 

 in great vigor, but I will not undertake to determine how much that 

 vigor is lessened or increased by the action of lime on the leaves 



and branches. 



\ ery respectfully, yours, 



L. YOUNG, 



Chairman of Fruit Committee^ For State of Kentucky. 



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