New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-25
AT HORTICULTURAL EXHIBIT.
INTERESTING STORIES PICKED UP AT
AMERICAN INSTITUTE SHOW.


Those enterprising people who arranging
symphony Of perfumes" as an entertainment
get points the horticultural exhibit OF the
American Institute They are all common or gar
den' odors. but they a fine gamut OF odorlf-
erous harmony. from the spicy TO the seductive.
from the subtly elusive 10 the enticing.
Few people know that celery has a Clean dell
cious odor when punched in great masses.
Then there Is the family pungent smell Of the
peppers, the evasive odor of tomatoes. the mellow
scent Of ripe pears and apples. the frankly baccha-
nalian breath Of the grapes. Even the oFlinahI
scetless autumn flowers have each their own faint,
characteristic odor for the appreciative nose.
There is probably other sort OF show which
brings mult-mionares and producers into active
competition for prizes. Women who have large
country places are becoming more and more inter
ested in fruit and flower growing and Mrs. Oliver
Hoyt of Stamford. Conn, has taken all the prizes
in grapes and Mrs. Trevor. who has place at
Yonkers has made fine entries Miss Della Marble,
the daughter OF the late Manton Marble is about to
set out extensive orchids on her place near Bed
ford in Westchester County. the pupils of Brian
cliff Manor taking charge of the work for her. She
will have cold storage plant in connection with
her orchards.
Men of a different type are also turning to fruit
culture for both pleasure and profit For Instance.
e New York banker who a year and a half ago
was nearly wrecked by the unwse investments of
his partner has retired 200 farm which his
wife happened 10 have bought near Bedford. This
fall he has leo barrels Of apples to sell, and is 60
ing TO plant orchards and put a cold stor-
age plant
\ retired leather manufacturer of Lowell. Mass.
has Just completed the setting Of 10 600 trees at
| Pittsfeld, Mass. He is going 10 run the orchard
| for profit employing all his best business meth
| DDS in it, and declaring that he will make it an
| object lesson to the farmers Of New-England
A good deal OF the inspiration OF this interest
| has come from George Powell. superintendent OF
BriarcHn Manor Agricultural School Mr.. Pow
ellis own farm near Client, is the object Of many
| he
| mad over big peaches or thousand barrel crops
| They go out see his young trees. which, II is
common saying. have been bred like horses"
This fall he has 1900 young peach trees, 500 pear
! trees and 1000 plum trees. all bearing their first
crop; and alongside of them is an orchard set
| out by his father fifty years ago and bearing as
Mil last as for one hundred years but most orchards
! are ruined by insects and exhausted soil at the
! Il is bits of lore like this which are floating
| who lives near Peekskill who six years ago was
m from II | a6d his his bavs we're G91
tient leave Acting on expert advice, he planted
Years after ne made from the hrst crop $500 The
summer of 1901 ne opened a little store IN Peeks-
the sign Blank $ peaches. fresh from the farm
f fst his SIS summers cost nm 800 and
5 PeS9gn old i When he planed his peaches
AS q matter q fact" said Mr.. Powell at the
money making right around New-York. Here is
me Of People to be fed Let the western and
| Eoufhern growers feed the masses, but let the
| home producers cater TO the rich who are willing
| article. The glass culture has scarcely begun
! around New-York- The abandoned farms of the
| East viii all be reclaimed by men who viii com
| PRODUCER They will know how to market well
| as how produce. The West is far ahead in
! Rocky Ford melon growers. have their agents in
! Chicago and New-York, and sell the greatest
| advantage all times.
| The use of fruit has very greatly increased in
| America within the last generation I once sold
| bartlett pears at SIS barrel Now l sell them
/ hltI han | n rh.
/ former price. because of the enormous market
A.! The use OF flowers should increase in the same
years, but still it is not circumstance what it
| ought to be. Around Glasgow and many other
! Scotch and English cities may flower
! fields. and companies OF Workmen go out from the
CITY every day and cultivate them. They are
4 planted with all the faVorite garden flowers and
J the blossoms shipped to every city and town
sn Great Britain and sold in chean bouaIets for A
few pence, to the people. 1 want to that here
T / want TO see large numbers OF men making a v-
do you know said Mr.. Powell. with fresh en-
/ thusiasm, that number Of those boys who have
ner have gone to Mrs Parsons and asked if they
! could not get a chance 10 work farms? That
farm garden Of Mrs. Henry Parsons was one Of
best movements ever started In this |
can see development OF it which ought to fol-
low. There thousands of farmers scattered
through New-York State who want one or two or
/ are who Shaking their apples to
the ground and selling them for 20 cents a barrel
pick them by hand and pack them carefully Boys
! are the best help in the world for that What?
Yes. / think there would be few apples after
they got through The oranges should furnish
points of communication through which CITY organ
izations could send boys TO the farmers 1t would
be worth than all the school they would lose
10 these little city chaps, and lots Of them would
stay there and have the inestimable advantage of
! growing up country boys.