The Red Cloud chief., 1884-02-01
HORTICULTURAL.

ty Meeting At Kansas City-Ohicers Elect.
ed and Other Business Transacted.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Jan g.
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 Allan.
tic and Pacific slope. One of the specimens
is q small slab cut out of an Usage orange
tree which was reported to have had a
growth O .hree hundred years and to have
lain buried upwSrd of two centuries.
The first paper this morning was by Mr..
Dinner, of Dayton, O., on the culture of
~raspberries, after which irrigation and
Iruit-raising in Colorado was discussed, ID.
3. Grimes, of Denver, leading. At the at
ternoon session Colonel D.. s. Twitchell
welcomed the visitors on behalf of the city,
and the annual address was delivered by
ernor Morton, of Nebraska, alluded to the
death of DR.. Warder, a well-known horti-
culturist of North Bend, o., and a resolu-
ton 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, n was 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-, Jan. "a.
The most important business transacted
by the Mississippi Valley Horticultural
Society to-day was the election of officers
for the ensuing year as follows: Presi cent,
Parker Earle, Golden, ILL.,; Vice-President,
E. H. Hudson, New Orleans, La; Secre.
tary, w. H. Reagan, indianapolis, Ind.
Treasurer, j. c. Evans, Harlem, Mo. State
Vice-Presidents: N. Dinner, Dayton, o.;
]. L. Lyon, South Haven, Mich; E. Y.
Teas, Dunreith, Ind; Prof. I. j. Burrill,
Champaign, ILL.,; George p. PETER, Pewau-
kee, Wis; NJ. Pearce, Minneapolis, Mimi;
ex-Governor X. 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; V. Munson, Denison, Tex;
lege, Mo-; DIR. Chas. Meier, Mobile.
Ala; Elisha Moody, Lockport, N. V; f.
II. Hart, Federal Point, Fla; A. D. Webb,
Bowling Green, KY; s. Raglan, Independ-
ence, Mo-; DIR. Samuel Hape, Atlanta, Ga;
A. W. Campbell, Wheeling, w. Va.
During the afternoon and evening ses-
sion interesting papers We're read, as fol.
lows: "Market Fruits of Kansas City,"
by l.. A. Goodman, of West Port; 'sBest
Fruit Packages" by E. T.. Hollister, of st.
Louis; 1.-THE Value of Careful Packing and
Handling," by E. H. Williams, of Indian
Rpolis, Ind.
The Committee on Nomenclature consist.
ing of Messrs. Sylvester Johnson, T. E. j.
Burrill, L.. b. Pierce, j. II. Hale and j. H.
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 a simplifi.
cation and uniformity Of the names of the
fruits of America, and recommend the fol-
lowing rules to-wit:
/. Every fruit should have one, and but one,
2. If tenable, this name should be the earli-
est one published us hereinafter provided.
3. Each name should consist Cf one word,
and for all new American fruits such word
should be readily ~pronouncable in the English
language.
4. No name should be considered authorized
until published i'm 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
Psychological Society and To the Secretary of
the Missouri Valley Horticultural Society,
5. In case of doubt as to tenability. priority
or authority of publication. appropriateness
as a good English word, special action by the
above named societies, or by a State HOrticul-
tural Society should be considered valid and
final.
q. 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 as recommendation to the
American PrOmOlOTical Society.
The Committee on the Horticultural Ex-
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
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
genealogical organizations be informed that
the earlier varieties of fruit can be carried;
sixth, that a general meeting of the direc-
tors and commissioners he held as soon as
possibl.; seventh, that the States be asked
to vote aid to the exhibitions; eighth, that
the States wanting emigration be especi-
ally urged to advertise their States by
sending their products to the exhibition. A
COIHpdIlSOu wa luStltutcu u cell hduSdS
and Minnesota at the Centennial Exhibi-
ton. The former spent $4,000, the latter
nothing, and in four years after, the popu-
latiOn of Kansas had increased 5O3,015; of
Minnesota, 49, 1855: the wealth of Kansas,
$780, coo; Minnesota, S3g,OOO 900. 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.
lions 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 a committee to frame bill for sub
mission to Congress embOdying the above
points, and that the Canadian Government
be invited to join in these foreign researches;
President Earl act as a 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. J. Colman, Missouri; |
CD Johnson, Kansas; s. H. Newlin, Ar
kansas; Robert Douglas, Illinois, and Par
ker Earl, Illinois.
The remainder of the session was occu-