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SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 
Mr. Harvey —In regard to this committee : The commit¬ 
tee was appointed to write a report on peaches and plums;. 
There was one gentleman from Orlando and one from Glen- 
wood appointed with myself. As I have said, we did not 
meet; we had no correspondence and I have not seen the 
gentlemen yet. If we had got together, or had corresponded 
on the subject, I might have been able to submit ataore sat¬ 
isfactory report. I know full well in this state that the 
varieties that will do lor one section will not do for another, 
and it will take a lot of information and investigation, and a 
committee of this kind should have a correspondent in every 
section of the slate and bring the mass of correspondence 
before the Association to give satisfaction. I know that the 
finest varieties in one section have succeeded indifferently or 
failed in other portions of the state. There ought to be 
stretched over the state a committee to correspond with every 
section aud get the different kinds that are suitable to the 
different parts of the country. This might be satisfactory and 
useful to the Society. 
W. H. H. Holdridge —In Alachua county, as in Baker 
county, we cannot raise the variety of peaches that are raised, 
in West Florida. The Chinese type of peaches will do noth¬ 
ing with me. The Waldo and the Angel are all looking 
beautifully to day, and at least three years out of four I get 
a crop of Waldos and Angels when the later varieties fail. 
A. H. Carey— My experience has been a pretty extensive 
one. I have lor years lost money in peach culture and I would 
dislike to see people go into this business without a full 
knowledge of what they are doing and what fertilizers, etc., 
are needed. 
Prof. P. FI. Rolfs —I would like to ask Col. Harvey in re¬ 
gard to curculio. Does that bother you? 
Mr. Harvey —It does not affect any of our peaches if we 
have active trees. They affect old trees and eat up all the 
fruit, but there is no trouble on young and healthy trees. 
The young peaches seem to get so full of juice that the cur¬ 
culio does not like to bother them. 
Prof. Rolfs —Three years ago that seemed to be the con¬ 
dition at Lake City, but last year the peach crop was almost 
a total failure. It is quite a disease in our portion of Florida. 
What remedy has proved most effective in destroying the 
curculio ? I do not know whether our people have any 
knowledge on this subject. 
Mr. Harvey —I am using the London purple for this pest- 
on my plum trees, and I am meeting with success. The Buiv 
