The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-07-28
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
Holds Splendid Meeting at the Home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Nash,
Near New Baltimore.


Near New Baltimore.
On the 10th, day Of July, one mile
south of New Baltimore, at the farm
home of Mr. and Mrs w. L. Nash, hun
slred members and friends of the Stark
County Horticultural Society met for the
purpose of learning the best methods Of
doing the best things for the best in
terests of fruit growers and gardeners, to
report progress in their various fields of
labor and to compare notes with reference
to fruit prospects in Stark County.
The c. {. & S. rail road to, and Tally
Ho from Hartville and number of pri-
rate carriages, took the Canton delega-
ton across the beautiful country, and by
noon the spacious barn was filed with
horses, the surrounding yards with We
hicles aud the tables with bill of fare
that always pleases everybody.
President Hayhurst called the meeting
to order at 1:3O p. m. and after reading
of the minutes, took up the "Order of
business"
H. A. Holibaugh was appointed to look
after the memberships.
Mr.. Bitter corrected the minutes with
reference to his Canada Red apple which
committee had called a Rhode Island
Greening.
Memorial committee reported as fol-
lows.
We cannot but regret having been ap-
pointed by our President to present SEN
timents of respect to the memory of our
late Horticultural sister Mrs Lewis Essig,
because, having known and loved her,
having oft enjoyed her generous hospi-
tality and now sadly missing the kindly
greeting, the familiar presence, we with
her family are mourners, and no word of
ours can adequately express our indi-
yidual grief OF retiring unobtrusive
nature, it was the pleasure of her friends
to know her higher qualities of mind
and heart. May the quiet influence Of
her lifes usefulness stimulate us to a
larger growth, to nobler selfabnegation.
In her death our society loses quiet,
earnest member, whose interest in its
development and progress never abated.
LENA w. CoRRELL.
KATE Mcdowell.
The following communication was read
THE OHIO AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT
STATION.
METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.
Wooster, Wayne Co. o. June ~, 1898.
Mrs S. H. Rockhill, Canton, o.
Dear Madam:
The specimens you send with your
letter of goth, inst are as follows.
I. This is the maple scale, though
sometimes found on other trees and even
grape vines. It is not generally destruc-
tive and then only tc, the maple. 1t can
be destroyed with kerosene emulsion, or
if one drenches the infested trees daily
with hvdrart water it will prevent their
increasing.
?. This is the caterpillar of the Fis
sock moth, small gray miller that de-
posts its eggs in patches covering them
with a white spittle like substance. This
to is seldom numerous enough to do
much harm as it has a large number of
natural enemies. 1t can be poisoned with
paris green.
I. This is the caterpiller of partly
brown, yellow and white moth which is
seldom even common and your statement
ofits serious injuries are rather aston
ishing. Are you sure that you have sent
me the right insect or that this is actually
the same as the one injuring the large
orchard? The caterpiller sent has the
eggs of a parasite on it and this would
indicate that its enemies were close on
its track. Thanks for invitation to visit
your society.
Yours very truly
F. NJ. WEBSTER.
Mr.. Bitter asked what produces yellows
In peach trees.
Mr.. Grant gave talk in the symptoms
of the disease and recommended cutting
down and burning affected trees, but no
one attempted TO give the producing
cause.
QUERY ?.
Does cultivation in the pear orchard
tend to produce blight3
Prof. L. NJ. Bloomfield to whom the
question was referred did not know, but
his own orchard has not been cultivated
and yet is badly blighting.
M. Bitter thinks rapid growth is con-
ducive to blight.
Prof Bloomfield is also of the opinion
that rich ground, producing luxuriant
growth is not best for pear trees and
might render the trees subject to blight.
Clayton Holl asks whether cutting pear
trees back when they make vigorous
growth be beneficial
S. H. Rockhill found in one of the re-
ports of proceedings of the State Hort
cultural Society lecture by one of the
great pear growers of the state who
several times during his lecture stopped
to say 81 prune heavily" And thinks
that thorough pruning before the blight
sets in will often save the tree,
After the tree has become diseased the
pruning must be more desperate.
Eli Grant asked why so many shorts
start out below the blightul part of a
pear tree. Mr.. Bitter had noticed the