Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-25

AND SECRETARY RUsk-xEpALs AwARDKp TO
frHIprroRs-cESsrs HoKricrLTuRsL STA
rIsrics PRESENTED Br Mr.. NooKEHKAp AND rHE
socIErY's ACTION.
The American Pomological Society, that has
held such successful convention at the Ma
tional Museum this week, adjourned this morn
inS, not to meet again for two years A briei
session was held this morning TO clear up
small amount OF business that still remained 10
be done. Afterwnrd the members went In
body 10 pay their respects to the Sec
Rotary OF Agriculture and later to the
White House. Many people called at the
museum this morning TO see the fruit dispiny
that was still on exhibition. 1t was about their
last chance, for the exhibitors have been busy
all day packing up their specimens many OF
which will be taken AWAY from here 10 be
placed on exhibition elsewhere at fairs and
horticultural shops.
The place and exact date of the next meet
ing OF the Pathological Society were not de-
cided upon, but were left in the hands Of the
executive committee. Tho sentiment of the
members Is generally so strong in favor OF
meeting next time at Chicago during the
Columbian exhibition that Il would seem
as though the committee would have
TO adopt that, even though they had
liked their minds upon some other place. which
Is considered hardly likely. A cordial invita-
/ ton was received from Chicago and the plan
Of holding the next display there, with the
meetings OF the society IN the mornings and
possibly the evenings, too, leaving the after
moons free for the members to visit the expo
sitlon, meets with such general approval that it
viii, In all probability, be the one adopted
MEDALS AWARDED.
The committee Of award of medals to the
most creditabie display Of fruit a, the present
| convention of the society finished its labors
yesterday. The members were DR.. r. NJ.
Hexamer, W. E. Sharp, ID. w. Adams and W.
A. Taylor. In their report they awarded
premiums as follows:
Wilder silver medal-The Virginia state board
of agriculture, represented by Henry l.. Lyman,
Charlottesville. Va, 355 plates OF apples. "a
plates of pears 7S varieties OF grapes plates of
piums; Ellwanger Barry, Rochester, n. T., liz
plates OF pears; z. ]. Berkmaus, Augusta, Ga,
varieties Japanese persimmons; l plate Le-
monium trifotihntum. plates helffer pears.
plate Hawaii pears, varieties pyms japonica,
varieties figs, Rev. Lyman Phelps, Sanford,
Fla, varieties OF lemons, varieties OF lines,
varieties Japanese persimmons, plate POM
| mola and highly instructive collection Of
citras, hybrids and crosses
Bronze medal-Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa,
| Cal, collection of seeding ounces; Charles ii.
| Hedges, Charlottesville, Va. rs plates grapes;
j. s. Harris, La Crescent, Mimi, Is apples;
Wisconsin Horticultural Society, SO varieties
OF apples; Jewell Nurser: Company, Mimi, 26
Seeding apples; 4. s. Dinsmore, Riverside, %
! plates apples; J. W. Porter, Piedmont, Va, 81
| varieties of apples; j. L. Babcock. representing
Tidewater Virginia, 100 plates apples.
Special mention-H. ;. Mehanes, Florida,
pineapples from Indian river; s. A. Birch,
| Covesrille, Va, four plates superior market
| apples; A NJ. Lybrook, Stuartsburg Va, eight
| apples Of notable excellence; 4. v. Munson.
| Dennison, Tex, seventeen plates apples, one
plate kciefer pears; x. A. Wickersham, Clarks-
| boro, Va, exhibit OF notably weil-grown
peaches, comprising Heath, Gorley and smooth.
CENSUS HORTICULTURAL STATISTICS.
Among the papers read at the meeting at the
| Ebbitt House on Wednesday evening was that
read by Mortimer Whitehead, in charge of the
horticultural statistics of the eleventh census
| which was received with special favor, COM
mended by President Berckmans as q most val
liable document, and Mr.. Whitehead was given
l a unanimous vote OF thanks by the society. Mr..
| Whiteheads paper stated that whilo statistics
of the apple and peach were collected in the
| tenth census, that Of 1850. the figures were
| never published. and that until this census no
official national statistics of the great horticul-
| tnral and genealogical interests had ever been
| published
The regular agricultural schedule of the
eleventh census contained fifty inquiries relat-
| ing to pomology and included the acres, trees,
products and values OF the apple, pear, peach,
plum. apricot, cherry. strawberry, raspberry,
| blackberry, cranberry and other small fruits,
vineyards and their products OF grapes, wines
and raisins.
| One illustration of the practical character Of
the inquiries and their value 10 fruit growers
was that under the head of the various orchard
fruits and the vineyard. in addition to getting
| the number of clearing trees and ''vines
| bearing" the number of young trees not
bearing and acres in young vines not bear
| ing" When these figures are properly tabu-
lated and printed. at glance the student be
| he homeseeker or man OF business, can tell by
counties In just what portions Of our country
| any given variety of fruit is successful and
| where its cultivation was being extended during
the eleventh census year.
While cotton, tobacco, the cereals, meat
production and other farm crops have been the
| subjects Of special investigation in other CEN
| sus years no special inquiries have ever been
made in the lines of horticulture. However,
Mr.. Porter approved several special mvestiga-
| tions of this character, notably those of WITH
| culture, florists, truck farms, seed farms,
nurseries, peaches, tropic and seni-tropic fruts.
and nrts. Several preliminary bulletins have
already been made public, others are in the
aration. Mr.. Porter kindly consented
| to the use Of some of the
figures not before made public. The viticul-
tural industry represent in the census year
| l55.66l. $50 of capital invested, giving en-
ployment to 200. $50 persons The vines are
now growing that Will produce 100000 to
100000 boxes of raisins within three years,
being more than the present entire consump-
ton of the country, which is about Z, SOC, 900
boxes annually. Horticulture shows an invest
ment OF upward of $40 0o0, 600, the annual sales
amounting to $40. 2ll, sos. o.
TRUCK FARM FIGURES.
The figures of truck farming show an invest
ment of 500 600 900. with annual product
reaching s76,517,155. The seed farm figures
show 169,S57 acres devoted specially to seed
growing. Some Of these seed farms are of
large extent, the average acreage per farm in
Iowa and Nebraska being 695 acres, several of
them being of nearly 900 acres in extent. The
peach industry has grown to be national.
Total acreage for the United States,
507, 1856; value Of product, s76, 160, 400.
Upward of $50, 600 900 was found
to be invested in peach growing in the census
year. The United States has 4, $40 nurseries-
tine infant schools of our orchards. They have
a value Of al, 973. $3.50, and occupy l72, 2O6
acres of land, and produced grand total Of
8, 1856, S55, 77S. of which 51s,016,Gl2 are fruit
trees, the young apple trees numbering 24o,-
$40. e66.
Oranges lemons. figs, pineapples and nuts
were also for the first time counted. Great
strides have within few years been made in
the production Of tropic and semi-tropic fruits
| and nuts in this country. OF almonds Califor-
Il