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STATE HORTIOULTURXL SOCIETY. 
qualites and merits I submit to the consideration of the mem¬ 
bers of the society, and to the public. 
The subject of plums being thus brought before the society, 
Mr. Plumb said that the essayist had presented this fruit 
under a new feature, that of placing them in lists of ability to 
withstand degrees of cold, instead of merits as to fruit, and 
surely it deserves a careful study before it was adopted or con¬ 
demned. 
Mr. Stickney had tried to rear many sorts worked on tame 
roots, but all had failed. He, therefore, from his own experi- 
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ence, had concluded that the plum must, in this state,be worked 
on wild stocks, if we would succeed. 
Mr. Plumb knew one tree grafted on the Ked English, which 
is in good condition, and has bcrne several cropsxif fruit; but 
such cases are rare. The best trees are those worked on the 
wild stocks. He thought that plum trees were often killed by 
overbearing. 
Mr. Adams had quite a large list of trees, and he would 
greatly like to see how they would look while dying with the 
disease of overbearing. His trouble had been to‘get them to 
bear at all. 
Mr. Tuttle has the Lombard, sixteen years set, and used to 
get fruit plenty, but'of late he had failed. The curculio had 
been too severe for him, and he new no effectual remedy. ■ On 
their account he thought he would have to abandon the at¬ 
tempt to raise plums. As soon as the curculio finds them, it 
is sure to destroy the entire crop. 
Mr. Stickney had succeeded in protecting his plums against 
the curculio, by enclosing them and keeping fowls., or hogs in 
the enclosure. 
Judge Knapp had heard it stated that the curculio would 
not wojk on a tree that grew over water, and asked if any one 
could tell if that were the case. 
Mr. Peffer. They will not work in such a place, as they 
would, in falling, which they are often doing, in that case fall 
into the water and be drowned. Instinct seemed to teach them 
to avoid the water. 
