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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
LOW TOPS. 
Judge Knapp offered the following, which was adopted : 
Resolved, That we reco.iimend that apple trees be trimmed with low tops, 
and that the branches be induced to grow as nearly as may be at right angles 
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to the leading shaft of the tree ; and not more than from two to four feet 
from the ground to the lowest branches 
Mr. Tuttle should support this resolution. He thought the 
manner of forming the top very important. There should be 
a leading shaft, and all branches should be as nearly at right 
angles to that as possible. Such a tree would not be liable to 
split down, nor rot in the angles. Some trees are disposed to 
grow upright, with such the trimmer will meet with most diffi¬ 
culty, but perseverance would do much towards overcoming 
such trees. He approved of the low tops. They would stand 
the climate better, and the fruit was more readily picked on 
such trees. 
THE WESTERN FARMER. 
Mr. Kellogg offered the following, which was unanimously 
adopted: 
Resolved, That we not only endon-se The Western Farmer, as an able agri¬ 
cultural paper, but we will make it our organ of communication, and will con¬ 
tribute more fully than heretofore to its columns by correspondence, and by 
every means in our power assist in its circulation. 
WILD BERRIES, NUTS, FOREST TREES, ETC. 
The business of the society being concluded, the question of 
the culture of wild berries, nuts, forest and shade trees was 
then taken up. 
Mr. Cover furnishing the following hints : 
Berries aud Nuts .—The sanice or shadberry grows well in all 
parts of our state. Plant in rows 12 feet apart. Blooms ear¬ 
lier than any other tree.; bears, in clusters, a most delicious 
fruit; ripens in early June ; bears at 10‘ years old. Thrifty, 
upright, tall and ornamental. Birds only too apt to steal the 
fruit. 
