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"we have trees enough. If we plant trees we shall get an abundant supply. 

 I have raised six varieties of plums this year, and two years ago I had a 

 verj fine crop. These insects will regulate themselves. 



Dr. Trimble. — Circumstances favor us some seasons, and we get a par- 

 tial crop. While in Rochester a gentleman from Michigan told me a sin- 

 gular circumstance in relation to the ravages of tiie army worm. They 

 came in such quan-tities that he was afraid they would consume his whole 

 crops. He fought with them night and day, and got his neighbors to help 

 him. They would cat off" a field of clover as clean as this floor. 



Mr. William S. Carpenter.— -I am surprised to hear any gentleman say 

 that we have trees enough, in this day of enlightenment and progress. I 

 never think of the curculio except I meet Dr. Trimble. I shall endeavor to 

 plant all the varieties I know worth cultivating. A neighbor lately told 

 me that unless the curculio had thinned his crop of plums, his trees would 

 have broken down with their immense load. I want the country to be sup- 

 plied with a bountiful crop of fruit, so that all may eat. We have received 

 in this city over a hundred barrels of plums per day for the past two 

 months. 



Dr. Trimble. — I believe we are on the same track. Our object is the 

 same; we are trying to supply our people with fruit — Mr. Carpenter by 

 increasing the number of trees, I by preserving those we already have. 



Mr. John G. Bergen. — Some years ago the lady bug was very destruc- 

 tive to the squash, but they have passed away. I have seen but two or 

 three during the past season. At one period the St. John wort was so 

 thick in our fields that more than half the crop was St. John wort, but now 

 this plant is hardl}' found. Why may not the curculio disappear as sud- 

 denly? 



Dr. Trimble. — We must judge of the future by the past. I say these 

 insects are increasing. The apple moth is more destructive to the apple 

 than the curculio. 



Mr. K. H. Willia-nis. — I am pleased to hear that our friends have been 

 through a part of Western New York. I am happy to hear that these gen- 

 tlemen iiave found that there are other places to grow fine fruit outside the 

 environs of New York. I am pleased with the remarks of Dr. Trimble. 

 From my observation I am positive that these insects are on the increase. 

 With the consent of the club I will make a few remarks on 



Western New York as a Fruit Growing Region. 



This somewhat celebrated and productive portion of the State, owes per- 

 haps more to its peculiar formation, both as regards its geological and 

 physical organization, than to its latitudinal position, for its fertility and 

 productive powers, and at an early date of its explorations and settlement 

 was denominated the " Genesee Country'" by some, and by others the "Lake 

 Country," as distinguishable from other and surrounding localities. It may 

 be generally described as that section bounded on its north eastern, south- 

 eastern and south-western borders by a series of lakes and their land slopes, 

 whose waters and drainage fiow into Lake Ontario, and on the west by the 

 Genesee River and its west side slopes, which find the same general reser- 



