Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-02-02
HORTICULTURAL.
The Mississippi Valley Horticultural Socie-
ty Meeting at Kansas City-Omcers Elect
ed and Other Business Transacted.

Inc mfss1ssippi valley Horticultural SOcie-
| ty Meeting at Kansas Chy-Ohicers Elect.
ed and Other Business Transacted.
| KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan 3D.
Tho 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 horticultr-
| raj display proper, there are ON exhibition
| various specimens of wood indigenous to
| the different soils lying between the Allan
| 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 a
| growth ot -5ree hundred years and to have
| Ian buried upw>>rd of two centuries.
The first paper this morning was by Mr..
| Dinner, of Dayton, o., on the culture of
| faspberries, after which irrigation and
| J-uitraising in Colorado was discussed, d.
>. Grimes, of Denver, loading. At the af-
ternoom session Colonel ID. S. Twitchell
welcomed the visitors on behalf of the city,
| and the annual address was delivered by
| President Earle, of Golden, Ill. Ex-Gov-
| crnor Morton, of Nebraska, alluded to the
| death of DR.. Warder, wcll-Gnown horti-
| culturist of North Bend, o.. and a rcso,i-
| tion of respect was adopted by the Associ-
alton.
IL
Minnesota, read paper on the future of
fruit growing in America, and fol-
| lowed by Ex-Governor Furnas, of NebraS-
ka, on "Forestry on the Pacific Coast"
| The meetings are largely attended, and
more delegates are arriving by every train.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, JAM "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: Presi cent,
Parker Earle, Golden, H.; Vice-President,
E. H. Hudson, New Orleans, La; Secre-
tary, w. II. Reagan, Indianapolis, Ind. !;
Treasurer. }. {. Evans, Harlem, Mo. State
Fice-Presjdents n. dinner, Dayton, o. /;
J. l.. Lyon, South Haven, Mich; Z. Y.
Champaign, Ill; George p. PETER, Pewau-
kee, Wis; NJ. Pearce, Minneapolis, Mimi. !;
ex-Governor X. w. Furnas, Brownsville,
Neb.; Prof. f. A. Popenoe, Manhattan,
l.. Budd, Ames, Iowa; l.. Ii. Nolan, Little
Rock, Ark; v; Munson, Deni>on,, Tex;
Prof Prof Il $. G9lmnnt 1 AgEiGul ,;l ,1 Col
Ala; Elisha Moody, Lockport, n. "; T..
II. Hart, Federal Point, Fla; A. d. Webb,
Bowling Green, Ky; S.'Ragan, Independ.
A. w. Campbell, Wheeling, w. Va.
During the afternoon and evening ses-
sion interesting papers were read, as fol.
lows: "Marke5 Fruits of Kansas City,"
by l.. A. Goodman, of West Port; BE st
Fruit Packages" by +. 7. Hollister, of st.
Louis; The Value of Careful Packing and
HapdlinS," by +. H. W illiams, of indian
The Committee on Nomenclature, consist
ing of Messrs. Sylvester johnson, L. Il. j.
Burrill, L. Il. Pierce, j. H. Hale and j. H.
MeSters, submitted the following report,
which was adopted:
Your Comm ttee on Nomenclature beg
leave TO report that we ll.dnrse 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 Il simpliti
cation and uniformity of the names OF the
fruits of America, and recommend the fol-
lowing rules to-wit:
L. Every fruit should have enc, and but one
authorize name.
est one published rs hereinafter PROV idcd.
3, Each name should consist tf one word;
and for all new American fruits such word
should be readily rTonCunclbe i'll the English
language.
4. No name should be considered authorized
until published in some reputable ana @cncr-
ally accessible h"rtcuit ural periodical, accom-
panied with Il clear and full d SCI iption OF the
trni,: such published nam" and dcscription
shall be sent to the Secretary of thr American
the Missouri Valley Horticultural society
>. In case of doubt as TO tcnabiiitv, priority
a IL good English word, special action by the
al o named societies, or by il state IioTtiuu-
tur',i Society should be considered vai.d ana
final.
6. No variety of fruit shall lie named by n
society whit Ii S not esteemed pracii, ally vali-
abb, and worthy OF cultivatlon; this report to
hc considered as rccolnlncndation to the
American PrO1nOiOE.ci society.
The Committee on the Horticultural EX-
hibition at the Worlds FAR in New Or
leans next December made n report;
first, approving of. the exhibition and
of the action of President Earl in the mat
ter; second, recommending that the Gov
crnors of States he requested to appoint
commissioners to aid the scheme; third,
that it b. made known that all appoint
ments must be made before February 10:
fourth, tlat ali States be asked to place
their products on exhibition; fifth, that
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the earlier varieties OF fruit can be carried;
sixth, that general meetiag OF the drec-
tors and commissioners he held soon
possibl seventh, that the States be asked
to vote aid to the exhibitions; eighth, that
the States wanting emigration be eSpecl-
ally urged to advertise their States by
sending their products to the exhibition. y
comparison was lnStit utc1 between Kansas
and Minnesota at the Centennial Exhibit
ton. The former spent $4,000, the latter
nothing, and in four years after. the popu-
latiOn of Kansas had increased 5Et.6Jo; of
Minnesota, 1866; the wealth OF Kansas,
$l21,0JO,00J; Minnesota, 3J,oO0,0U0. The
report was adopted as read.
At the session on Friday the Committee
on Forestry proposed 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
of a Board of Forestry and Horticulture in
the West. wi hich shall establish sub-staticns
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 a committee to frame n bill for sub
mission to Congress embodying the above
points, and that the Canadian Government
be nvi ed to join in these foreign researches;
that Pres dent Earl act as u member of this
committee. The committee was then APP
p inted, as follows: j. Sterling Morton,
Nebraska: Ex-Governor r.. w. Furness,
Nebraska: Oliver Mobbs, Minnesota; Pro-
fessor Bubb. Iowa: \. j. Coiman, Missouri;
g.. johnson, Kansas: =. II. Newlp, Ar
kansas; Robert Douglas, Illinois, and Par
ker Earl, Illinois.
The remainder of the session was occu-
pied by the discussion of topics of interest
and re aiding papers,
The Society concluded it's labors after a
a very interesting four III vs. session and
adjourned to meet in NeE Orleans during
the third week in january 1885.
Frozen to Death in 81 Ght OF Home.
DALLAS, Tex Jan. 25.
Yesterday morning the dead body of Mr..
w. II. Douglass, n farmer. who resided iif,