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•any trouble in shipping them. I have only shipped a few. I 
have found a good market near home. Sometimes, though, I 
overstock the home market. Last year I did not have a very 
large crop and about the first of November I shipped a box 
{what would be an orange box) with my first shipment of or¬ 
anges to Chattanooga, Tenn. They were 15 days on the 
road. They arrived in Tennessee and sold for $2, net. That 
is what was equal to an orange box. I have shipped them to 
New York and got $3, net, about as well as I have ever done. 
The trees are very prolific with me, but I find this trouble: 
They are liable to be damaged by late frosts and if the tree 
is the least bit damaged the worms will get into it and kill it. 
When the tree gets old the worms will also get into it. Aou 
can depend on a tree living only a little while—not more than 
three or four crops will be produced. There is one worm that 
gets in at the roots, but the others get in through the bark, 
and they kill the tree. I have decided that in a commercial 
way the Japan persimmon will not do to depend upon. I 
have made some money out of them but do not set much 
store by them. I am afraid to trust them. It is true that 
the stump will always sprout up and you can regraft that and 
get another tree in a short while, but that will also die. My 
first trees were set out twelve years ago and they have 
gone down three times to the stumps. The bulk dre only 
five or six years old and many are badly affected with the 
worms, 
C. A. Bacon —I have a few of the persimmon trees and 
what I have have been very successful. I have three varie¬ 
ties. The best is acorn-shaped and very large. Some of that 
variety have weighed a pound. They are very fine. I am 
not acquainted with the insect that gets into the root. I 
have used kerosene for killing the borer, both in peach and 
persimmon trees. At Holly Hill Mr. Harris went into the 
persimmon business quite extensively. The last conversa¬ 
tion I had with him was two years ago. He said then that 
the twig-borer and the wood-pecker would ruin ihe fruit. I 
should be sorry to have this fruit cried down. It is the most 
perfect fruit, I think, grown on the face of the earth. It is a 
delicious fruit and “fit for the gods.” 
Lyman Phelps —The gentleman gave the name of the 
fruit when he said it was “fit for the gods.” The fruit is no 
more liable to the attacks of insects than any other trees that 
grow. 1 have a persimmon tree that has been fruiting for 
me for twelve or thirteen years. Last year I picked off fruit 
equal in quantity to ten boxes of oranges, and it is quite 
healthy still. I do not know much about Japan persimmons. 
I got some new varieties year before last from California that 
