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Dr. Trimble. — It is the old story. The curculio is here for six 

 weeks, and no single fumigator will keep off this destructive 

 insect. I don't believe there is any other remedy for this insect 

 than the sheet, and shaking them off and destroying them day 

 by day. 



Mr. Prince said that Mr. Rowe fumigated a tree in bloom, and 

 not since, and now the tree is full of fruit. 



Dr. Trimble. — I found this morning in one garden some trees 

 with all the fruit stung, and others with none stung; yet there 

 had been no fumigation or remedy applied. That may be the 

 case with the trees at Flushing. I think that soil has something 

 to do with the curculio. At Hudson, N. Y., the subsoil is very 

 stiff, and there plums grow well. 



Mr. Prince. — If ground is paved under plum trees the curculio 

 does not trouble the plums. 



Mr. Carpenter. — In my neighborhood plums do best upon the 

 heaviest clay land. 



Mr. Gale. — I have succeeded in growing good plums in the 

 door-yard, where fowls and pigs can destroy the infected fruit as 

 it falls. 



THE STRAWBERRY QUESTION. 



Josiah May, jr.. of Harrison, "Westchester county, twenty-seven 

 miles northeast of here, exhibited several specimens of straw- 

 berries, among them the Wilson, fully ripe, and a new seedling 

 resembling the Chocton, a prolific bearer, and good fruit, but not 

 fit for a market berry, because it is soft when fully ripe. 



Mr. Hite, of Morrisania, exhibited a remarkably fine specimen 

 of Wilson seedling, very large and fully ripe. Also, a specimen 

 of Scott's seedling, a very handsome, good berry. 



P. G. Bergen, of Long Island, showed a variety of specimens 

 of strawberries, but few of which were true to their name, 

 according to the opinion of a number of gentlemen present, who 

 are good judges. He says : The Wilson seedling is the best 

 bearer, and ripens early and faster than any other that I know. 

 This plant wants manuring more than any other. It is also a 

 very early variety. 



. R. G. Pardee. — Varieties are often confounded by the runners 

 of different plants intermingling. He related an instance of a 

 prize awarded to one variety, when it was afterward proved to 

 be another sort. 



