Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-09
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UNION AND AMERICAN.
FARM AND GARDEN.
zEDIANA STATE HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY.


We have received from F. G. johnson,
of New Albany, Indiana, one of the Vice
Presidents of the State Horticultural Socie-
ty, the report and proceedings Of its ninth
annual session. The object of this society
is to collect, cOndense and coIlate informa-
ton relative TO all varieties of fruits, and
dispense the same among the people. By
the constitution the President is required,
at each annual meeting Of the society, to
appoint a general fruit committee, con-
sisting Of one member from each
Congressional District in the State,
and it shall be the duty of each member TO
report upon the fruit crop in his district.
1t is also the duty of this committee to re-
port annually limited list oflIuits adapted
for general cultivation in the State at large,
and also lists adapted for different divisions
of the State.
The officers Of the society and this fruit
committee constitute Board of Horticul-
ture, and they are authorized to employ an
agent, or agents, to visit different sections of
the States, for the purpose of collecting
horticultural information of general in
terest. In this manner, vast stores of
knowledge are collected, digested and dis
seminated, so as to make 'fruit-growing in
Indiana almost as certain business as corn
growing. Indeed, the exactness given to
knowledge by these constant investigations
and inquiries is the greatest of all encour-
agements to the fruit-growers Of a State,
Many persons, for instance, would like to
engage in the culture of the grape, but
having no information as to the best varieS
ties, the manner Of planting, and
the purposes for which the diff
ferent varieties are best adapted,
are afraid to venture upon an unknown
business. The same may be said of the
culture of any other fruits. In the report
before US, are given the names Of every
variety of apple, pear, peach, cherry, grape,
currant, ETC., etc, the divisions of the State
best suited to their growth, the peculiarities
of the tree, the place Of origin, the peculi-
arities of the fruit, including season, or
class, size, shape, favor, color, quality and
other general remarks, giving color Of flesh;
whether best for marketing or the
family; or good or scanty bearer; whether
suited to cold soils or warm, gravelly land
whether good for cooking, for the table, for
cider, for preserves, etc, ETC., all Of which
information is classified and arranged so as
to be readily and easily referred to.
The appendix contains valuable and in |
teresting papers on the apple, pear, grape, !
etc, the best means Of propagating; the |
best locations and SOIL method Of preparing |
the same, how to select trees, how to plant, |
cultivate and prune.
These essays, prepared by practical fruit |
D growers, who have devoted their lives to the |
business, are especially valuable and we |
shall avail ourselves from time to time Of |
the information contained in tn IN.
OF all the reports that have come to our
Office we have seen none Of more intrinsic |
worth and merit, and return our waTmest |
thanks to Mr.. johnson for furnishing us
with the copy before US. We trust our
Horticultural Society win give US shortly a |
report upon the same general plan. We |
feel sure it would DO much to |
stimulate the culture of fruits in our State, |
30 well adapted by reason Of its soil, climate
and elevation, (ranging from two hundred |
to twenty-three hundred feet,) for the pro-
ducsion Of every kind of fruit grown in the
North and nearly all grown in the South.