The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-06
FRUIT GROWERS ADJOURN
Last Session Devoid of the
Sensations Of the First
Days Proceedings.
SOCIETY ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
Road Commissioners Budd Re
elected Secretary Mr..
schanck Not a Sill
verite:
SOCIETY ELECTS NEW OFFICERS

Especial to "The Jersey City News."1
TRENTON, Jan. 6, 1S99.-The closing
sessions yesterday OF the twenty-fonrth
annual meeting of the State Horticultural
Society were not fraught with any of the
sensations of the opening day. The
principal work lone yesterday was the
election Of officers for the ensuing year.
The officers chosen were:-President, s.
B. Ketcham, Pennington; Vice President,
David Baird, of Baird, Monmouth coun-
ty; Secretary, Henry I. Budd, Mount
Holly; Treasurer, Charles L. Jones, New
ark; Executive Committee, J. B. Ward,
Lyons Farms; E. p. Beebe, Elizabeth;
D. A. vanderveer, Freehold; L. J.. Black
well. Titusville; Jesse B. Rogers, Newark.
The following committees were also
chosen for the ensuing year
Fruit Committee-Chas. Black, Rights
town; John Repp, Glassboro; w. H:
Goldsmith, Newark; Samue G. DeCou.
Moorestown; B. r. Clifford, Delaware.
Flower Committee. P. Beebe, Eliza
beth; Hiram T.. Jones, Elizabeth; F.. s.
Goble, Verona.
Vegetable Committee-William H. Reid,
Tenant; Joseph Burt, Bridgeton; ]. L.
Lippincott. Riverton.
Legislative Committee. B. Ward,
Lyons Farms; s. B. Ketcham, Penning-
ton; Franklin Dye, Trenton.
Prof. G.. Harold Powell, of the Delaware
College Agricultural Experiment Station,
presented a paper or the Underlying
Principles of Variety Improvement" and
Prof. E. B. Voorhees,, director of the New
Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station,
read a paper on 1.-THE Use of Fertilizers
for Orchard and Small Fruits Herbert
w. Collingwood, managing editor of the
Rural New Yorker had for a subject
'fHow Small Fruits Eat Their Dinner"
and Pre- dent John P. Wilson, of the Sus-
sex County Peach Growers Association,
spoke on Peach Culture" William II.
Pray, of Three Tons, who was on the
programme to read a paper on Vegetable
Growing" did not put in an appearance.
DR.. j.. B. Ward, of Lyons Farms, read
a paper prepared by Hiram T. Jones of
Elizabeth on Hardy Shrubs for Deco
ration of Home Grounds" Among the
shrubs recommended were.-Forsythia,
Towering almond, Towering plum, spirea
thunbergii, bridal wreath or spirea pru-
n~ifolia, spiren van hontte, spirea collosa
alba, bulmalda. anthony waterer, deut-
zIai %crenata, mock orange, red Towering
currant, rosa ugosa Japan snowballs
and others.
Superintendent A. Harrington, of the
Twombly Farms, Madison, presented a
very interesting paper on Vegetable
Culture Under Glass He said he never
knew what perfection in a cauli1ower
was until he ate one from a greenhouse.
The superiority over the same article
grown under the best conditions outside
at any season or period of the year, was
very marked. Beet greens, carrots, let
tuce and onions grow satisfactorily and
proftably under glass. These vegetables,
in successive paintings in rotation, will
produce three distinct crops during the
winter season.
All the floor space beneath the benches
can be utilized for forcing rhubarb, pro-
vided the grower has some good strong
stools of it to bring in from the open
ground. Asparagus can also be prohtably
forced under the benches. Asparagus
pays to grow at any season, and therefore
be expected to pay best Of all In
mid-wintcr. Mushrooms and sea rale
can also be probably forced under the
Ny Butterback, of Oceanic, spoke along
the same lines.
Before final adjournment was taken,
President Ketcham made a brief speech
of thanks to the association.
Mr.. L. t.. s.. 5chanck, of Freehold, who
was SO unceremoniously chokea off in his
address on Wednesday, called attention to
the fact that he had been mlsquoted in
the report. He is reported as saying,
sYou ask me my politics, and 1t is this,
"a 10 L." whereas he really said, lis this
16 10 10, Mr.. Schanck says that IL he
been permitted to finish his paper, he
would have made clear his position, and
that he is not a free silver advocate oyI
any means.