Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-02
HORTICULTURAL.
The Mississippi Valley Horticultural Socfe-
ty Meeting at Kansas City-Officers Elect
ed and Other Business Transacted.


The Mississippi Valley Horticultural So
ciety reconvened this morning at ten
O'Clock, many delegates arriving by the
early trains from the Middle and Northern
States. Over two hundred delegates are
now present from twenty States, three be-
ing from Connecticut. The display of fruit
is very fine. In addition to the horticultu-
raj display proper, there are on exhibition
various specimens of wood indigenous to
the different soils lying between the Attain
tic and Pacific slope. One of the specimens
is a small slab cut out of an Usage orange
tree which was reported to have had
growth of three hundred years and to have
lain buried upward Of two centuries.
The first paper this morning was by Mr..
Dinner, of Dayton, o., on the culture of
raspberries, after which irrigation and
fruit-raising in Colorado was discussed, d.
3. Grimes, of Denver, leading. At the af-
ternoon session Colonel d. s. Twitchell
welcomed the visitors on behalf of the city,
and the annual address was delivered by
President Earle of Golden, Ill. Ex-Gov-
ernor Morton, of Nebraska, alluded to the
death of DR.. Warder, well-known horti-
culturist of North Bend o., and a resolu-
tion of respect was adopted by the Associ-
alton.
At the evening session Oliver Gibbs, of
Minnesota, read a paper on the future of
fruit growing in America, and was fol-
lowed by Ex-Governor Furnas, of Nebras-
ka, on Forestry on the Pacific Coast.o
The meetings are largely attended, and
more delegates are arriving by every train.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. "a.
The most important business transacted
by the Mississippi Valley Horticul ural
Society to-day was the election Of officers
for the ensuing year as follows: President,
Parker Earle, Golden, ILL.,; Vice-President,
E. II. Hudson, New Orleans, La; Secre-
tary, w. H. Reagan, Indianapolis, Ind;
Treasurer, J. G. Evans, Harlem, Mo. State
Vice Presidents: N. Dinner, Dayton, O.;
j. i. Lyon, South Haven, Mich; E. Y.
Teas, Dunreith, Ind; Prof. T. j. Burrill,
Champaign, Ill; George P. PETER, Pewau-
kee, Wis; NJ. Pearce, Minneapolis, Mimi;
ex-Governor r. W. Furnas, Brownsville,
Neb.; Prof. E. A. Popenoe, Manhattan,
Kas.; D. S. Grimes, Denver, Col; Prof. j.
L. Budd, Ames, Iowa; L. H. Nolan, Little
Rock, Ark; Y. Munson, Denison, Tex;
Prof. j. S. Colmant, Agricultural Col
lege, Mo-; DR.. Chas. Meier, Mobile,
Ala; Elisha Moody, Lockport, N; Y; E.
Fl. Hart, Federal Point, Fla; A. D. Webb,
Bowling Green, Ky; 5. Ragan, Independ-
ence, Mo-; DR.. Samuel Hape, Atlanta, Ga;
A. w. Campbell, Wheeling, w. Va.
During the afternoon and evening ses-
sion interesting papers were read, as fol-
lows: ''Market Fruits of Kansas City,"
by L. A. Goodman, of West Port; BEST
Fruit Packages by E. T. HolIister, Of st.
Louis; ''The Value of Careful Packing and
Handling" by E. H. Williams, of Indian
apolis, Ind.
The Committee on Nomenclature, consist.
ing of Messrs. Sylvester Johnson, T. E. j.
Burrill, L. B. PIERCE J. II. Hale and j. I'll.
Mesters, submitted the following report,
which was adopted:
Your Comm ttee on Nomenclature beg
leave to report that we indorse the recon-
mendations made by Hon. Marshall P.
Wilder, President of the American Promo
logical Society, as well as those of our
President, Mr.. Earle, looking to simplif-
cation and uniformity of the names of the
fruits of America, and recommend the fol-
lowing rules to-wit:
l. Every fruit should have one, and but one
authorize name.
2. If tenable, this name should be the eart-
est one published as hereinafter prov ided.
3. Each name should consist CT one word,
and for all new American fruits such word
should be readily pronouncabe in the English
language.
4. No name should be considered authorized
until published in some reputable and gener-
ally accessible horticultural periodical, accom-
panied with a clear and full description of the
fruit; such published name and description
shall be sent to the Secretary of the American
PromolOgical Society and TO the Secretary of
the Missouri Valley Horticultural Society,
5. In case of doubt as to tenability, priority
or authority of publication, app Opriateness
as good English word, special action by the
Above named societies, or by "a State Horticul-
tural Society should be considered valid and
final.
6. No variety of fruit shall be named by a
society which is not esteemed practically valu-
able and worthy of cultivation; this report to
be considered recommendation to the
American Promolog gicll Society.
The Committee on the horticultural Tx
hibition at the Worlds Fair in New Or
leans next December made a report;
first, approving of the exhibition and
of the action of President Earl in the mat
ter; second, recommending that the Gov
ernors of States be requested to appoint
commissioners to aid the scheme; third,
that it BE- made known that all appoint
ments must be made before February 10;
fourth, that all States be asked to place
their products on exhibition; fifth, that
pomological organizations be informed that
the earlier varieties of fruit can be carried;
sixth, that a general meeting of the direc-
tors and commissioners be held as soon as
possibl seventh, that the States be asked
to vote aid to the exhibition; eighth, that
the States wanting emigration be especi-
ally urged to advertise their States by
sending their products to the exhibition. a
comparison was instituted between Kansas
and Minnesota at the Centennial Exhibi-
tion. The former spent $4,000, the latter
nothing, and in four years after, the popu-
lation of Kansas had increased 503,055; Of
Minnesota, S}.6G6; the wealth OF Kansas,
$4,000, 900; Minnesota, S39,OO0,0OO. The
report was adopted as read.
At the session on Friday the Committee
on Forestry proposed a resolution, which
was adopted, calling upon the Government
to establish in the West experimental sta
tions in the interest of horticulture and for
estry, for the purpose of solving the prob
lem of adaptation of trees and plants to the
climate and soils of the Mississippi basin
and the best methods of cultivation. The
resolution further recommends the creation
of a Board of Forestry and Horticulture in
the West, which shall establish sub-stations
at each climatic belt; that agents be sent
to foreign countries having similar climates
to obtain seeds and recipes for the propa-
CATION here, naming especially Russia and
China: that the President of the Society ap-
point committee to frame a bill for sub
mission to Congress embodying the above
points, and that the Canadian Government
be invited to join in these foreign researches;
that Pres ident Earl act as member of this
committee. The committee was then ap-
pointed, as follows: j. Sterling Morton,
Nebraska; Ex-Governor R. W. Furness,
Nebraska; Oliver Mobbs, Minnesota; Pro-
fessor Bubb, Iowa; N. ]. Colman, Missouri;
G. J. johnson, Kansas; S. H. Newlin, Ar
kansas; Robert Douglas, Illinois, and Par
ker Earl, Illinois.
The remainder Of the session was occu-
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