Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-09-12
HORTICULTURAL.
Annual g sps Meeting Of the HortI-
cultural Society.

cultural Society.
On the afternoon of September 10th
the grape meeting OF the Wayne
county Horticultural society of tt,
iyear was held at the beautiful countr,
home of George K. Thorpe. just nortf
of the city, known as The William
Parry farm.
| Arrangements were timely made by
these generous folks for the accomo-
dation and pleasure Of the Horticultui
al society, and the members with thei.
friends began to assemble soon after
1.-THE noon day hour.
| The president being unable to al
tend the vice president called the
injecting to order near the usual hour
and the minutes were read and adopt
led
AgricClture-The farmer is pleased
with the excellent corn crop that will
soon be in shock. Farm operations
sown.
peaches plenty and fine, pears excel
lent. The curly leaf on the peach
tree was very abundant. which was
lessened by spraying. Grape growing
| in this locality not success financially
| and some vineyards are being removed
for other more profitable crops, as the
| b srry- worm, rot, miidew and bees are
troublesome and destructive to the
grape.
Flowers-An excellent season for
flowers. but the bngs and other insects
have only been held in check by care
a d spraying.
Vegetables-The tomato crop only
half an average, bat melons, pumpkins
and other vegetables were abundant.
The Pingree display at the city build
ing recently was highly commended
and believed to be source of much
good to our city gardeners.
Dairy and Culinary-From U. S.
weather crop reports. pastures are fine
throughout most of the state. IL this
county, stable feeding is being Inore
practical than ever, especially in con-
nection with the silo.
P.of. w. S. Davis of the city high
school gave the address on the
Amendments to the Constitution of
the United States" His extreme fami
liaritv with the subject, together with
the many supplem. utary remarks on
analog us topics, made the paper both
interesting and instruct We. and for
which the society extended him
special vote of thanks.
The special committee made a salts
factory report relative to our coming
Richmond fair. Each member of the
society receives complimentary to
the fair during the entire week, but is
expected to make an exhibit whether
competing for a premium or not.
Those rot supplied with tickets should
address our secretary. Nathan Gar
wood was selected by the ex-
ecutlve committee to take
charge of our society's exhibit
at the grounds, and it is intended that
our society's department shall contain
creditable display of agricultural and
horticultural products.
A vote of thanks was EXTENDED by
the society to our host and hostess for
the kindness and attention shown our
members at this meeting.
The displays on our table were nu
merous and fine, as the following will
show:
Oran d. .Addleman, 10 varieties of
Caleb w. King, 3 grapes, peaches.
G.. r. Thorpe, l grapes, peaches.
Henry kinlev, l grapes, l pear.
Kate Ayler, l ounce, l peach.
81 ID. Haisley. 3 grapes, 3 pears.
j. c. Ratliff, z grapes, : pears.
S. Hennipg, l pears, l peaches.
Mary Alvey, l grapes.
James Smith, IL grapes. 2 peaches.
Levi Hawkins, l grapes, 2 peaches.
Thad Hill, 3 grapes, pears.
Richard Shute, l grapes, l peaches.
James Smith and James Hawortb,
sweet potatoes; George Thorpe, James
Smith and j. c. Ratliff, several varie
ties of Irish potatoes.
Mary F. Ratliff, three bouquets;
Lizzie Mansfield. large bouquet; Mrs.
Bennett and Martha Test. five bou
quets. CALEB KING,
r. SHUTE,
Committee.
No further business appearing, the
society adjourned to meet in October
in the society's room at the court
house, when Mary Parry Thorpe will
read the ESSAY. CALEB w. KING,
President Pro Tenn.
WALTER RATLIFF. Secretary.
BoNFIELD, Illinois.
Il am subject to cramps and collie,
and have used many remedies, but find
Foley's Collie Cure beats them all.
w. L. YEATS.
A. G.. Lul en- 6 Co. and J. l.. Adams
& Co druggists.