The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-06-08
Meeting OF the horticultural socl ETY.
LANCASTER. May 9th, 1865.

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Society met, President J. G.. Kin.
kead in tho Chair. Secretary Mac.
cracken being absent, F. j. Boving
was appointed Secretary, pro tenn, for
this meeting. gA
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved.
The President proposed John Artz,
Martin Lands and D. Tallmadge as
members Of this Society, and they
were duly elected by ballot.
The subject for discussion, tho
Cherry, was taken up. Mr.. Clark
presented beautiful specimen Of the
Elton cherry, and remarked that it
was the earliest cherry and stands the
frost well. Low branching is q pro-
lection against frost. He presented
likewise some Wilson's Albany straw
berries of very large size, some plants
of the same variety, and some OF the
Early Scarlet variety, and remarked
that the latter did not appear to be
any earlier than the Wilson's, altho'
they were reported to bo the earliest
OF all. hllt.', t.g.'s- q ..1~l"
Dr.Dennis asked the members of
the Society whether a Northern expo
sure was Objectionable to the culture
of the cherry, and Mr.. Fetters and
Mr.. Clark stated that they had never
experienced any difference in the cx-
posure.
Mr.. Fetters spoke highly of the
Kirtland's Mary Cherry which he
considered fully as early and more
juicy,
Mr.. Young stated that he has some
of the Elton and fifteen other varie-
ties, but the Rockport is'thc best of all
of them. ..- ..-
DR.. Dennis asked tho opinion of the
Society why the trunk Of fruit trees
leaning to the East, did suffer from
frost more than others. ,j
The President and others attributed
the injury not to the frost, but to the
excessive heat in the forepart of the
afterBoon, and Mr.. Fetters and others
attributed it to the exposure to the
severe Northwest winds, but all agreed
that they never experienced such
damage to fruit trees, where the sys-
tenn oflow branching had been adopted
The President thought we had neg
lected the culture of the cherry too
much. Almost every farmer had the
common kinds, but good fruit never
was offered in our market Mr.. Kirt-
land, near Cleveland, has 42 varieties.
The subject, injury to the grape by
frost, was then taken up again.
Mr. Henry Borchcrs and DR.. Dennis
stated that they had not observed any
good effects from trimming off the fro
zen or injured shoots, but John Fet-
tcrs, Judge Ewing and Kinkead were
decidedly in favorof trimming off all
the affected shoots close to the old
wood, so as to give the dormant bud
q fair chance to start.
Mr.. Fetters thought his theory was
we'll supported by his own experience
this year and that of Mr.. Gravitts in
1859, which was stated III full BY him
at the last meeting.
The Secretary was in favor of trim
ming, but preferred giving his expo
rionce of the, result at subsequent
meeting. He had visited lately
good many vineyards in this county,
and found the damage by frost inva-
riably owing to the low locality, the
proximity of water, wet spots, springs,
high grasses, bushes or reeds, The
vineyards on the Ridge road generally
were all safe; but oveh Mr.. Dunbar's
vines were somewhat injured by the
proximity Of q spring, and Mr.. J. D.
Martins either by the fish pond or by
underbrnsh. .'.- -'A
The Fruit Committee reported next
on the Strawberries exhibited on the
table, and stated that Wilson's Albany
was by lar preferable to the EARLY
Scarlet, on account of its size, easy
culture-(not making many runners
and bearing its fruit on high and
erect stems.
On motion of Mr.. T. White, Small
Fruit was decided to be tho next sub
ject for discussion. After the members
of the Society had regaled themselves
with the good supply of delicious fruit
on the table, they adjourn ed to the