The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-04
WITH THE HORTICULTURlSTS.
MEETING OF THE STATE SOCIETY
At DUBLIN.

tiOn OF Ofncers-Next meeunB ~
MIIedgeviIIe Presentation 10
President BerckmaDs.
Dublin, Ca, Aug. 3.-Wednesday night't
| session of the Horticultural Society was
devoted to the fruit catalogue. Prof.
Scott read les different columns, and the
society discussed and classed the sections
OF the state according TO their producing
capacity. The teble of peaches came first
for consideration, but was left unchanged.
Mr. j. G. Matthews reported that the
Carmen had been cultivated into splen-
did fruit and it was given two stars,
stars being the insignia of rank, three
being the best, two next, etc. The Sneed
came near losing one of its two stars,
but was saved by Mr.. L. o. Green $
strong words of commendatio The
Early Belle was a new variety presented
by Mr.. r. G. Snow of Fort Valley. This
peach was cultivated from the Standard
Belle and bears ten days earlier. Mr..
A. w. Smith of Americas, presented the
Ever bearing, and It was given two stars.
Mr.. l.. A. Berckmans presented the
Greensboro, and 1t was given one star in
the middle section. The Belle of Georgia
and Admiral Dewey were placed upon
the table with star each
Blood plums Nos. and were stricken
from the table. This plum blooms too early
| for commercial use, crop rarely ever
being made.
The programme for Thursday morning
! consisted of addresses and essays upon
! TNf
versity of Tennessee was presented first.
Prof. Keiffer referred to the tillage of the
| soil as a very important factor. In the
| West, he said orchards containing sew
| eral hunched acres are found to be free
from grass and weeds
Baltimore a Better Market.
Maj G. NJ. Ryals of Savannah said those
| peaches shipped by him brought twice as
much in Baltimore as in New York. He
! could only account for the difference by
| the neglect of the railroads in keeping
| the cars iced.
Prof. Stockbridge informed the society
of the extensive experiments made by the
Southern Pacific Railroad in building spe-
cial cars and filling them with carbonic
| acid gas. This was found to prevent and
stop the decomposition of fruit. Prof. NJ.
B. Waite of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture said that the peach
grower must be a skilled man, in fact he
must be a biologist an entomologist, a
| pomologist, a keen business man and in
many cases politician. One of the main
| things, said Prof. Waite, is to select
good trees, which is as difficult as it is
! important Prof. Waite dwelt at length
upon the fertilization of the soil for peach
| trees. One of the best commercial fer
tlizers, said he, is 10 per cent. potash, s
per cent. phosphoric acid, and per cent.
ammonia. The matter of pruning came
| in for a share of the professors attention,
| he using a blackboard TO illustrate his
| talk.
Following the talk of Prof. Waite. the
committee appointed at the last session
of the society upon freight rates and re-
frigeration made a report. This report
| was warm in the extreme severely citicis-
| ing the railroads of the South for refusing
| to grant concessions to the fruit growers,
| and especially for lack of courtesy to the
committee
The Afternoon session opened with a pa
per upon peach culture in the South by
Prof. L. A. Snow. Prof. Stockbridge fol-
lowed Mr.. Snow with an admirable dis
cussion of soil moisture and plant growth,
Examination Committees.
The report of the examination commit
tees was here called for, and was as fol-
| lows:
Peach, Pear and Plum-Experiment
station, 80 varieties of Chickesaw and
! American plums of which none show par
ticuar merit. This exhibit shows how
many worthless varieties are disseminate
! ed by nurseries for revenue only. This ex-
| pertinent also shows the great value of
| the stations work in finding out and ex-
! hihiting the character of these new va
rieties. The station exhibits six varieties
of apples and eight varieties of peaches.
| The r. f. Lee peaches do not appear to
have their characteristic color.
Henry Banks OF La Grange exhibits
three plates of liberia peaches and three
of Corputs Early.
The P. j. Berckmans Company has an
interesting exhibit of Ever-bearing
peaches of the India type, four oiher va
| rieties of peaches, six varieties of Japan
| plums, and two varieties of European
| plums. They are very commendable.
| J. Fl. Yopp of Dublin exhibits six vare-
| ties of apples and four of Seeding
| peaches; j. T. Orr of Dublin, six plates OF
Keiffer pears; James Carter of Moreland
| one plate Elberta peaches and three va
rieties of apples; James f. Free of Demo
rest, four varieties of apples, one of plum:
and one of pears; j. II. Bontice of Demo
rest, two varieties of aples. one of pear!
and one of peaches Rumph & Moore o.
| Marshallville. twelve plates of Elperts
peaches; John NJ. Stubs of Dublin; fou
plates of liberia peaches, one plate Stone
wall, and three varieties of Japan plums
The color and size of the plums are unus
ually excellent and deserve especial men
ton. r. p. Johnson of Smithville, tive
varieties of pears and one of plums; r. +,
and w. o. Hall of Dublin, one plate o
Early Demun figs; r. II. Hightowe
OF Dublin, twelve plates o
Elbertas of unusual fine size, color and
general appearance The general excel
lence of these peaches make the ques
ton of soil upon which they were grow
and the method of their cultivation o.
much interest. l.. II. Snow, Indiar
Spring. twelve varieties of pecans. Spe
cial mention was given the pecans named
Senator, Georgia, Grant. Atlanta anC
Stevenson.
Grapes and Vegetables.
The report on grapes and vegetables 1:
not of especial interest on grapes the
Georgia Experiment Station was given es
pecial mention on the following varieties
American. Bailey Brilliant, Carman
Malaga and several others. The p. j
Berckmans Company received especia
mention on several; likewise j. A. Cam