Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-11-22
FRUIT GROWERS MEET.
Enthusiastic AssembIage i'm Bal
timOre This Week.

Enthusiastic AssembIage in Bal
timOre This Week.
The fifth annual meeting of the Mary
land State Horticultural Society was
held III Baltimore Yesterday and Thurs
day.
The society, although quite young,
has already been of much value in de
veloping and improving the horticul-
| tural condition of the State. It's mem
bership during the past year has i'm
creased to nearly 900, and indicates
the principal fruit and vegetable grow
ers of Maryland. as well as many i'll
Delaware. Pennsylvania, Virginia and
West Virginia. For the last two months
| owners of orchards in various parts of
the State have been sending fruit to be
put in cold storage for exhibition during
the gatherings of the society and is
made IA splendid showing.
An interesting collection of beneficial
and injurious insects and of the princi-
pal plant disease of the State was pre-
pared nv the officers of the State Hor-
| ticultural Department and displayed so
that fruit growers could see at close
range their most important friends and
| foes. Exhibits of fungicides. insect
cldes and spraying apparatus We're also
made, thus bringing together the pests
| themselves and the most approved
means and methods of their snppres.
sion. This feature proved of great val
ne III view of the increasing necessity
for the control of insects and fungorN
growth i'll successful fruit culture.
LESSONS IN APPLE GROWING.
Owing To the great possibilities fof
successful apple cultivation in Mary laiki
a considerable part of one session will
be devoted To Il discussion of the various
peoblems connected with the growing
and handling of this crop.
The officers of the society prevailed
upon Mr.. l.. A. Goodman. of Kansas,
City. Mo, to attend and discuss profit
able Apple Orcharding " Mr.. Goodman
is secretary of the Missouri State Horti
cultural Society and was fully CONVEX
SAINT with his subject, being owner aud
manager of a 1000 acre apple orchard
in the famous Ozark region.
The growing and handling of canta-
loupes was discussed by Mr.. w +. Al.
len and f. A. Pry. from the Eastern
shore and Blue Ridge sections of the
State, respectively. Both of these gen
tlemen have founded contaloupe grow.
ing quite profitable and were able to
give much valuable information
Prof. G.. Herald Powell of the Division
of Pomology. United States Department
of Agricultural told of the Government s
experiments in the cold storage of
kieffer pear The expansion acreage
devoted to this fruit, particularly on
the Eastern Shore. has brought prices
IN the home market so low that this
discussion was of great interest and
may be the means of securing greater
revenue from the crop.
PEACH GROWING IN MARYLAND.
A most important feature of the meet.
ing was the discussion relative to peach
growing i'll Western Maryland and on
the Eastern Shore. The culture of the
peach, as shown by the last census, is
on the decline here. there being de-
crease of 3i.3 per cent. in the number
of trees i'll 1900 as compared with 1890
Progressive growers are of the opinion
that this fruit must he grown on "a more
intensive system than the so.called
natural method" largely followed in
the past.
| THE PROGRAM
The program of the meeting was as
follows:
Thursday afternoon, opening PRAYER
Rev. J ii. Eccleston, Baltimore; secre.
tary's announcement, report of secreta
ry-treaSurer, reports of standing com
mittees, reports of special com mittees,
presidents annual address, Capt. Rob
ert 5. Emory, Chestertown, Md: report
of State entomologist, report of State
PathOlogist, "Trncking In the Past and
Prospects for Same In the Future,
Richard Vincent, Jr.. WhitenIarsh, Md.
chestnut culture, general discussion.
Thursday evening at So'clock-"Hor,
ticultural Education" r. w. Sylvester,
president of the Maryland Agricultural
College; "Adornment of Farm Homes y
n. +. Fulton, superinte ndent of Clifton
Park, Baltimore; general discussion Nv
members of the Baltimore Gardeners
Club and others; 1.-The Kieffer Pear in
Cold Storage and the Development OF
and Export Kieif Trade" Prof. G. Har
old Powell, division of pomology, United
States Demartment of Agriculture; dis.
cussion: Propagation of Plants" Or
lando Harrison, Berlin, Md; question
box.
Friday morning at . o'clock, Peach
es in Western Maryland" A. L. Tow
son, Smithsburg, Md; discussion by
Hon Charles G.. Biggs. +. A. Pry and
others; peaches on the Eastern Shore. >
general discussion by Hon. James !
Harris. Capt. r. S. Emory. j. Spencer
Japan and others: profitable Apple
Orcharding," Mr. l.. A. Goodman. Kan
Sas City, Mo-; discussion led by James
5. Harris, ;. :. Stouffer. j. w. Kerr
and others; Sweet Potato Culture,
Prof. NJ. b Waite. division vegetable
physiology, United States Department
of Agriculture. Washington; plant
Diseases of the Year" "Weeds in Or.
chards." Prof. J. b 5. Norton, State
Pathologist; question box.
Friday afternoon Mt | o'clock, Can
taloupe Culture" w. +. Allen. Sails
bury. Nd; "Cantaloupe Growing in
the Blue Ridge Mountains" Emory A.
Pry, Keedysville, Md discussion by
Professor Henneberger, w. G. Dawson
and and others; "A Marylander's Oh.
servations on Fruits and Fruit Grow
ing in the West and on the Pacific
Coast. 81. w Kerr. Denton, Md.
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