The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-04-03
PORTAGE COUNTY HOR-
TICULTURAL SOCIETY.

IlCULIUkAL SUClEI 7 .
ADDRESS OF II. Y. BEEDE, Presidel
Of the Portage County horticulture
Society at it's meeting March 19tl
1879:
MEMBERS OF PORTAGE COUNTY HoF
} TICULTURAL SOCIETY-LADIES AN
. GENTLEMEN
1t is with great degree of embal
rassment that I assume the duties O
President of this Society to which b,
your votes you have assigned me
While 1 fully appreciate the homo
conferred upon me, regret that can
not bring to it more experience in tn
various departments included in tn
term Horticulture. We are never too
old to learn and / trust that while pre-
siding over your deliberations L shall
profit by the experience of those capa
ble and willing to impart instruction
and valuable information. Our Socie
Jy was organized on the 9Th of Febru
ary last under favorable circumstances
with sixteen members, since that time
sixteen more have been added.
Soon after our adjournment the Con.
stitution and Bylaws were printed
and copies forwarded to parties inter
ested in the advancement of HOrticul-
ture, with q request that those friend
ly to the organization be called upon
and solicited to join with us in build
ing up Society that shall not only be
q benefit to its members, but to the
community at large. We have reason
to hope that our membership will be
considerably increased at this meeting.
Thia nj 10 l, al Of n n
experiment we have started with the
hope and expectation of making a sue
cessful and permanent Society, and
have confidence that we can accom-
plish it, if we unite our energies and
labor to that end. First, Then let me
say that every member should cOnsid-
er that it is of the utmost Importance
that he or she should be present at ev-
cry meeting when it is possible SO to
do. Without prompt and punctual
attendance of its mem bers, the inter
ests of the Society will wane. Let us
come together as cO-wOrkerS in a COM
mon cause, labOring for our own inn
provement and advancing the cause of
Horticulture.
We have a broad field open before
US !; the term Horticulture technically
means the cultivation of the garden.
Garden is very comprehensive word !;
1t embraces not only the cultivation of
vegetables, but also fruits and flowers,
and these severally are to receive our
attention, and anything that will aid
us in cultivating successfully any of
them should also receive attention.
We are reminded each returning sea-
son of the injury done to many of our
fruits and fruit trees, (sometimes re-
sulting in the destruction of an entire
crOp) by the various insects which ing;
fest them, curculio, codling moth, &c.
In view of this fact should we not turn
our attention to the protection of the
birds from destruction. They will
render us very great service in destroy
ing these insects, if they are permitted
to do SO. The subject for this days
discussion is Fruits, best kinds and
varieties for market purposes and the
proper method of planting fruit trees"
will be directed to the cultivation of
some of the small fruits, Strawberries,
Raspberries, Blackberries, &c. We
have not yet arrived at perfection in
the propagation of these fruits nor in
selecting the best varieties to be culti-
waited. I would not omit to mention
the cultivation of ornamental shrubs
and flowers.
DIR. Warder, President of the State
horticultural Society, in his last an
nual address says, Individually as
" well as collectively, you apostales of
+" Horticulture wherever you may be
" situated, plant flowers, shrubs and
" trees on your own land and persuade
" villages have been made attractive
by such planting, and the work is
g well worthy of imitation every
" where" We have the complaint
made frequently that the boys raised
on the farm are too often anxious to
leave it and seek some employment in
cities and towns. Why is it? Are they
not confined too closely to the hard
work of the farm-required to work
early and late, without present COM
pensatiOn and with little or no recrea-
ton. Provide them with papers and
works on Agriculture, HOr-
ticulture and Horticulture. Furnish
them with these things, not only to
pastime and pleasure, but a study.
Educate them in EACH and ALL of
the various branches of Agriculture.
Teach them to watch and study the
full development of each seed or bulb,
from its first tiny leaf, to its full frui-
ton of fruit or flower, and you will
soon inspire them with an interest and
love of cultivating the BEAUTIFUL,
thereby rendering the home more at
tractive and lessen their desire to leave |
The old hearth-stone. which has been,
and in fact ever will be to them, the |
dearest spot on earth.
Professor BarrOws in his address de- |
livered here little over year ago,
before the State Horticultural Society, |
speaking on this subject said
u There is not a farm in Ohio so small,
. that yard relieved with shrub and |
. shade trees would cramp it. There
8 is not another class of men in the +
' community who have it within their
' power to make their homes home
. like, by trees, shrubs and flowers, so
: easily cheaply as the farmers. For all
' the desolatiOn Oftheir country homes,
. for the disagreeable surroundings in
. which they SO often coop their wives
g and children, they are absolutely
. without excuse. Inability is not the
' true account of their failure to hold
. the hearts of the rising generation to
. their country homes"
My friends, let US devote our ener-
gies to the work before us; let us set |
An example to our neighbOrs by beau
tifying our own homes in fact as well |
as in name, and my word for it, we
shall realize that some good has been |
Again thanking you for the honor
conferred upon me, we will take up
the regular order of business.
A TRUE GENTLEMAN.
"1 beg your PARDON" and with
smile and touch of his hat, Harry
Edmund handed TO an old man against
whom he accidentally stumbled, the
cane which he had knncEed from hia