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Irrigation is only advised in extreme cases, as ordinarily, intelligent cul- 

 tivation will be all-sufficient. If, however, irrigation has been once com- 

 menced, it must be kept up to get good results. The warmer and drier the 

 soil, within reason, the quicker the fruit will ripen. 



Bright red is the color most preferred for marketing purposes. The 

 greatest care is necessary in picking and packing. In removing the fruit 

 from the vines, it should, for the home market or for canning, be well col- 

 ored; for distant markets, the diffuse color should just be discernable. In 

 any case they should not be bruised or injured at the stem. For any 

 market they should be carefully assorted in size and color, and packed 

 with the apex outward in small boxes. 



For home use it is well to train the vines upon low slanting trellises. 

 Tomatoes can readily be grown from cuttings when kept close with bottom 

 heat. Sometimes Chinese gardeners in the southern counties, on the 

 approach of frost, cut off the vines and cover up the stubs with old sacks 

 until all danger from cold has passed. It is well to nip out the tops of the 

 plants before blooming, to make them stout, and perhaps by retarding 

 their vigor produce fruit sooner. 



Here a recess was taken until seven o'clock p. m. 



EVENING SESSION. 

 [President Cooper in the chair.] 



COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE. 



The Chair appointed the following standing committee on nomenclature 

 of fruit: Professor George Husmann, W. W. Smith, E. J. Wickson, W. G. 

 Klee, and B. M. Lelong. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON OLIVE OIL. 



Mr. Lelong: Mr. President, your committee appointed to consider the 

 olive oil shown here, after due consideration have come to the conclusion 

 that there was not sufficient time to make proper examinations and report 

 to this convention, and we recommend that one person be selected by this 

 convention, another by Mr. Dondero, and that these two persons select a 

 third party, and that the samples be turned over to the committee so 

 named to report thereon, and that the report when made be published. 



On motion, the report of the committee on examination of olive oil was 

 adopted, and Mr. B. M. Lelong was selected as the representative of the 

 convention on such committee, and Mr. Dondero being present named P. 

 C. Rossi, of San Francisco, as his representative. 



DISCUSSION ON PEAR BLIGHT AND CURL LEAF. 



Mr. Gray: During the noon recess some of the gentlemen went over to 

 the Rancho Chico and examined some pear trees, which I thought had the 

 regular pear blight, and some of them thought it was not and others 

 thought it might be that. I would like to hear from them, for if it is the 

 pear blight it will be a very serious thing for the pear interest. The first 



