Evening journal., 1907-12-26
TO SHOW STATES
FRUIT PRODUCTS
Peninsula Horticultural So
Ciety Convention to be
Held in January

fruit grown on the Delaware peninsula.
the Peninsula Horticultural Society will
held its twenty-nrst annual convention
and lecture courses on the second week
IN January.
President W. r. Allen Of Salisbury
and Professor Wesley Webb, the secre-
tary OF the organization, the work OF
which has been 80 prolific in increasing
the value and productiveness Of the gar
den-peninsula, finished their conference
to-day and completed the program.
Salisbury Nd, was selected for the
meeting-places and the Salisbury Opera
House viii be the headquarters and the
Peninsula Hotel will be the home Of the
members and friends Of the organization.
Three States appropriate money to
maintain and increase the interest IN
this fruit and nower-planting organiza-
tion, enabling II TO get the most cele-
brated scientific men and lecturers in the
world TO address IT, and the program this
year shows no falling off. All Of the
sessions are free. or late years the or
ganizauon has become so lively and
efhcacious that practically every success
fui fruit and plant-grower Of note is
associated with It,
The program for the society's twenty
nrst convention, as completed here to-day
lis:
Tuesday, January "a. opening session
at 200 p. m. Prayer, Rev. W. T. M. Beale.
Address Of welcome, Rev. T. Il. Martin
dale ID. D., pastor Salisbury M. e.
Church. Response, S. Harrington Mes
sick, president Delaware State Board OF
Agriculture. Transaction Of miscellaneous
business. Presidents annual report, w
i. Allen, Salisbury, Nd. General report
on apples, former President s. H. Derby,
Woodside, Del. Commercial Apple Crow
ing" Rev. Henry M. Dunlap, Savoy. IL
linois.
Second session. 7sO p. m. New Fruits
J. W. Kerr, Denton. Ornamental Plant
ing" with lantern siides), Professor +.
A. Waugh. Amhurst Mass. Spraying for
Apple Diseases" with lantern slides)
Professor w. M. Scott United States
Department OF Agriculture.
Wednesday, January 15 third session
beginning at 900 a. M. report on
Peaches" Orlando Harrison. Berlin.
Address on 'Tnseots," Professor Thomas
j. symons. Maryland State Entomologist
from the Maryland Experiment Station.
College Park, Md. "sprayife." Professor
c. A. McCue, Hortculturist Of Delaware
State Experiment Station. Newark. Del.
How 70 Control the Brown Rot OF the
Peach" Professor w. NJ Scott. United
States Department Of Agriculture. "Why
1. Use Lime-Sulphur-salt." S. II. Derby.
Woodsido. ''Why / Use Soluble OIL, J.
w. Killen, FELTON,, Del Results with
Professor Penny's soluble OIL" Professor
c. o. Houghton, entomologist Delaware
Experiment Station, Newark, Del Dem
instration in making Bordeaux mixture,
Professor c. A. McCue. hortculturst OF
the Delaware Experiment Station.
Fourth session, 2 p. m. The pupils OF
the Salisbury High School will attend this
session and will sing Maryland. My
Maryland" and other patriotic songs
Reports on transportation, presented by
Charles Barker. Milford. "The Relation
Of transportation Facilities to Horticnl-
ture." Colonel william Bender Wilson.
Philadelphia. horticultural Education, o
Professor c. p. Gloss. of the Maryland
Experiment Station, College Park, Md
and State horticulturist OF Marylard
What Massachusetts IS Doing for Hor-
ticultural Education, Professor r. r. A.
Waugh, Amherst Mass. Address II. w
Collingwood, LID. editor Rural New
Yorker.
Fifth session, 79o D. m. Music. "Ths
Use OF Commercial Fertilizer" Professor
II. Hayward, director OF the Delaware
ENperiment station. Resistant Varieties
in the Control OF Plant Diseases" Pro-
fessor J. b. s. Norton. Maryland State
plant pathologist Address DR.. Mel T.
Cook. pathologlst Delaware Experiment
Station. "Flonculture," william f.
schaner Dover. Address. DR.. coning-
wood.
Thursday, January 1s. sixth session. q
a. m. Special addresses and reports.
Pears" James II. shallcross. Middle
town. ''Plums," Randolph c. Peters
1ronshire. Nut Culture" W. Twins
Walker. Chestertown. small Fruits.
oliver A. Newton. BridgevilIe. Crane
Growing" Walter T. Massey, smyrna
Vegetable" W. G. Dawson, Cambridge
Seventh session, 200 D. m. paper OF
canning crops, Henry p. Cannon, Bridge
Vile. Produce Exchanges" J. J.. Hy
slup. Keller. Packages" Frank G.
Bancroft. Wyoming. "The Grower, the
Seller the Consumer" by A. Warren
= Patch, secretary Of the National Com
mission Merchants League CThis Is re-
: garded as one OF the most important ad
dresses OF the session and II Mr.. Patch B.
: prevented from attending, a substitute
learned in the subjects. will be sent b,
him)
At the close OF each address. oppor.
Il tunity will be given for the full and free
n discussion OF the topic presented.
70 The Question Box will be provided ans
= viii be opened whenever It seems adj
u visable. Members are requested by tn,
j. ofAciary to come prepared to ask que.
tions, either orally or by placing them n
u the box. The following have been. hand
: ed in; What is the remedy for shot hot,
: fungusy' "what are the best new straw
berriesf' 'Ts the San Jose Scale dyin
outY'
y Women are cordially invited on tn
A souvenir program, TO be present and par
x ucipate in all the discussions. The PENN
sula Hotel win be headquarters OF the so
h ciety during the meeting. other semi
= private hotels and boarding houses
& with ample capacity to entertain all whit
Il win be present have been secured a
l. reduced rates.
ROBBED MAN OF
ie WATCH AND NONE