FRUIT-GROWERS’ REPORT. 
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Thursday—Afternoon Session, 
plums. 
Kellogg—Not much experimental knowledge; have failed, 
first from location, second from cultivation. The Imperial has 
succeeded best: fault in location—grown on too low ground. 
Cooper—Has seen Pond’s Seedling doing well in this State. 
Atwood—Greatest difficulty is to save the fruit from the 
curculio. 
Brayton recommends sweet elder bushes broken off, and 
hung in the trees, as a preventative of the curculio. 
Atwood—Thinks soap suds, with some assafoetida, injected 
on the tree by a syringe, a good preventative. 
Mr. Cooper recommends for cultivation, Bleeker’s Gage 
and Pond’s Seedling. 
Mr. Kellogg would add Imperial Gage and Red Diaper. 
Mr. Brayton—Lombard, Wahington and Smith’s Orleans. 
Atwood—Grafted into small wild stocks ; succeeded well; 
grafted early. 
Brayton—Set the scion on the west side of the stock, to 
prevent the wind from blowing it out. 
CHERRIES. 
Kellogg—Would recommend common Red English and the 
Morellos. Succeed best in propagating by budding. 
Brayton—Belle de Choisey and Reine Hortense do well on 
dry upland. 
Atwood has seen good success by grafting. 
Willey—Cherries should be worked only in the Mahaleb 
stock; Mazzard, too spungy and tender for our western soils. 
Train trees with low heads, or rather, with no bodies; form 
bushes not trees. Early Richmond is as hardy as any fruit 
known; Plum Stone Morello resembles it in growth and is 
equally as hardy. Governor Wood, with low head, also 
succeeds. 
Plumb—Would set dwarfs; dwarfs by nature, dwarfs by 
pruning and dwarfs by propagation. Have lost thousands of 
