fruit but got the small
branches as well. I don't know what to do about the brown rot.

Mr. Drum: I would say that my experience was something like Mr. Older's
with the sand cherry crosses. They grew until they were large and I
sprayed them with lime-sulphur. I couldn't see any injury from that
until they were grown, nearly ripe, and then in spite of me in a single
day they would turn and would mummy on the trees. I had a Hanska and
Opata and the other crosses, and they bore well. They were right close
to them, and the brown rot didn't affect them particularly.

Mr. Ludlow: I would like to ask these experts what is the life of a plum
tree. Now, an apple tree, we have them that have been bearing for forty
years, but my plum trees that were put out less than twenty years ago,
they got to be a thicket and they don't bear any large plums at all. I
introduced years ago, if you remember, the Ocheeda plum, that come from
seedlings that we found in the wild plum at Ocheeda Lake. It is a very
fine plum. I had about twelve bushels this year, and I have never seen a
bit of brown rot in that variety of plums, although the other varieties,
if they bore at all, they were brown rotted all over. The Ocheeda plum
has a very thin skin, and when the rain comes at the right time and the
sun comes out they all split open. That is its fault. But my orchard is
getting old; it is twenty years old. I had a young man work for me, and
he left me and bought a new place. I told him he could take up all the
sprouts he wanted of those Ocheeda plums. He did so and put out an
orchard of them. I think that was about ten years ago. This year while
my plums didn't average me, my Ocheedas didn't average, over an inch or
an inch and an eighth in diameter from that old orchard--he had sold out
and gone to California--but from that orchard a man that never thinks of
cultivating sold three wagon loads of the finest plums I ever saw.

Mr. Kellogg: How large were the wagons? (Laughter.)

Mr. Ludlow: Well, the ordinary wagon box. He hauled them and sold them
in town. That was from an orchard that had been left without any
cultivation.

Mr. Philips: I have heard George Kellogg say you could prove anything in
the world in a horticultural meeting. I was glad to have Mr. Cook say a
word in favor of the DeSoto. The first plum I ever bought was a DeSoto
thirty-five years ago. I planted it and never saw any brown rot on it
and had five bushels on it this year. Geor