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pearance of its starting again, I cut off that branch down to clean 

 sound wood. 



Youngers — Have you tried the Miner and Forest Garden ? 



Hogg — Yes, I have tried the Miner, but not the Forest Garden. I 

 find that the Wild Goose and Miner both winter kill with us. 



Carpenter — Yes; the Wild Goose will winter kill in the Platte 

 valley. 



Dunlap — I find the Wild Goose of very poor quality, but have 

 discovered that the curculio does not affect it where it grows near wild 

 plums. 



Carpenter — I think there must be some mistake about Mr. 

 Hogg's Weaver plums bearing fruit. They could not have been 

 Weaver, as that plum is a fraud. I don't think any person in this 

 state ever saw the fruit of a Weaver plum tree. Our favorite plum 

 is the De Soto. It is larger than the Forest Garden and bears earlier. 

 Of course, the Forest Garden is a good plum, but I like the De Soto 

 better. The Pottawattamie is an acquisition. Our trees are young 

 but they have born a little. In quality the fruit is fully as good as 

 the Wild Goose. In our plum orchard we have planted two Wild 

 Goose to one Miner, in alternate rows, in order to effect fertilization. 

 The Wild Goose has borne but the Miner has not. 



L. A. Beltzer — Friend Carpenter attacks the Weaver, and I can't 

 see why, as it is a good tree. We have it, or at least what was sold 

 to us for the Weaver. I sent some twigs to Mr. Carpenter to find out. 

 He pronounced it Weaver. Then I got some trees from him called 

 Weaver. They were loaded with fruit last season. Fruit large, red, 

 rather long, a free-stone, not a tough skin. It ripens about the first 

 of September, and I never saw a finer specimen. The Miner and 

 Wild Goose both do well with us. 



Carpenter — There must be some mistake about those Weaver 

 plums. Either Mr. Beltzer has forgotten which kind lie planted or 

 we have given him another variety in a mistake. I would like to ask 

 Mr. Williams about the Hawkeye plum, and how it does in Iowa. 



Williams — It seems to be a fairly productive plum, although not 

 many persons have fruited it yet. I believe Mr. Terry has, however. 

 I would like to ask' if the plum is as profitable as corn at fifteen cents 

 |xr bushel, where one has to ship twenty-five miles ? 



Youngers — We find it far more so. Our Forest Garden trees av- 



