The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23
President Van LindIey of
Western North Carolina.
HOW OUR TASTES CHANGE
The Strawberries Of the Eastern Coun-
ties Are Most Profitable.
WHAT A LIVE SOCIETY COULD DO
Great Work That Lies Before the Horticultural
Society. The State Now Stands Third
in Number Of New Varieties
Of Fruits.


Of Fruits.
AT the meeting of the Horticultural So
ciety held in Asheville last week, these
officers were elected:
President. Van Lindley, of Pomona.
Vice President-W. F. Massey.
Sherman, of Raleigh.
District Vice President-George E.
Boggs, R. c. Simon. oliver Warren, ].
S. Westbrook, o. w. Blackwell, d. E.
sere.
Executive Committee-B. Van Herff, P.
H. Beck. ]. F. CULVER, j. Van Lindley
and Franklin Sherman.
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
Mr. j. Van Lindley. president, then
delivered an address as follows:
''As president of the society, it be-
comes my duty to point out the work
for the society, and to give my own
opinion and observations of the fruit
interests of the State, or at least few
points
Eastern North Carolina. The grow
ing of strawberries has become i'm
mense. About II years ago, while at
tending nurserymen's association at
Chicago, a question was asked: what
are we going to do about growing
Strawberries? We no longer get fancy
prices; the south gets the fancy prices,
and when our strawberries are ripe
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Go South, young man, if you want
fancy prices.
Then the noted editor, the late Orange
Judd, took the floor, and pictured great
fields of Strawberries about Norfolk
and Charleston that he had seen the
past season, the fruit rotting in the
field, and was disgusting sight, and
said that too many had already gone
south So his words were discouraging
to every southerner or any one think
ing of going south. At that time grow
ers in eastern North Carolina were
shipping only a few crates day dur
ing the season, but now, regardless of
what the eminent editor said, as high
as twenty crates day are being shipp-
ed, netting the growers a good profit.
And now strawberry farms are open
ing up rapidly all along the line from
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main strawberry section.
I'm middle North Carolina all sum-
mer fruits succeed well; only few va
rieties of winter apples will succeed.
The same can be said of the east also,
as there is not farm in the entire
State but what can have supply of
fruit if they knew what to plant, vari-
cites, etc. Here comes in the work for
places in the United States. So he who
they have been compelled to listen to
and take advice from missionaries sent
out by the nurSerymen; and by them
much advice has been given, and great
improvements have been made.
New fruits, or foreign fruits: Some
are disposed to work against foreign
fruits, forgetting that many of our
old fruits are from Europe. The Bart
lett pear is from Europe; Neverfail or
Geneting apple, and the majority of old
standard pears and plums are of Eu-
ropean origin, which were so popular
twenty years ago, but since the intro
duction of the oriental fruits, princi-
pally from Japan, the pears and
plums, they have nearly isolated the
old varieties, and nearly every one who
plants pear today wants Keiffer, Lee
Conte, CARRIER and Magnolia, all of the
oriental CLASS sOT IL IJlulhSs he Wallis
Red June, Abundance, Burbank,
Wickson, and all Japan varieties.
Three-fourths of our sales are from
this class of stock today.
peaches are ripening now five
weeks earlier than when | was boy.
New varieties: The liberia peach
originated about twenty years ago
in Georgia. Today it is national va
riety, and has made peach growing
success in Georgia and many other
places in the United States So he
keeps up with the fruit interests
needs to plant new varieties, or he
might get left. The world is moving;
everything is changing for better;
the same thing occurs in varieties of
fruits. improvements in varieties are
as great as in any other line OF busi-
ness.
Western North Carolina. the ideal
apple section of America. have been
preaching this doctrine for thirty
years. Soon after the war, at a aneet-
ing of the American Pathological so
ciety at Richmond, Va. a collection of
western North Carolina apples carried
off the prize. The same results have
been obtained wherever they have
been shown ON either side of the At
lantic. Hundreds of letters have |
answered from people writing me on
North Carolina fruit growing, and |