Milford chronicle., 1912-12-27
PLANS FOR ANNUAL CONVENTION
PENINSULA HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY.
Expected To Be The Most Largely At
tended Ever Held In This State.

The twenty-sixth annual convention of
the Peninsula Horticultural Society will
open in Wilmington, in the dupont audi
torium Tuesday morning, January 18th,
1T 1890 O'Clock, and continue i'll session
until Thursday afternoon, January 10th.
"This will be the most interesting and
profitable and by far the most largely at
tended horticultural convention ever held
in this part of the United States" was
the statement made by Wesley Webb of
Dover, secretary of the Peninsula Horti-
cultural Society.
There will be an unusually fine fruit
and vegetable exhibit in connection with
the convention" continued Mr.. Webb.
The sixth annual Delaware Corn Show
will open the last day of our convention,
continue all of the following day and will
be a great attraction to those who come
to attend our convention The program
which will be presented by the Horticul-
tural Society, is of special and unusual
interest and with the fruit exhibit and
the corn show will bring to the conven-
ton hundreds of leading horticulturiSts
and agriculturists from all over the States
of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, New
Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. | shall
not be surprised if the attendance is
double what we have had on any previous
occasion. Arrangements have been made
with the railroads to sell excursion tickets
to the convention in Wilmington and re-
turn, at the rate of two cents per mile
each way.
At the opening session Tuesday, Janu-
ary IA, there will be an address of well
come bv Hon Harrison w. Howell, mayor
of Wilmington, a response by Orlando
Harrison, Berlin, Md, andthe annual adj
dress of the president of the society,
Hon. f. NJ. SOper, Magnolia, Del.
ID. S. Collins. of Milford, will report
on behalf of the committee OH peaches;
John ]. Rosa, of Milford, on pears; and
Professor c. P. Close, Washington, d.
c., on apples.
The following will be the afternoon
program on Tuesday
Apple Growing in New Jersey, Al
bert 7. Repp, Glassboro, n. j.. Modern
Peach Growing" Prof. {. A. McCue,
Delaware Experiment Station; Success
With a Peach Orchard" Joseph Barton,
Marlton, N. l.; "Orcharding in the Pa
ciic Northwest" illustrated, Professor
E.R Lake, secretary of the American
POmologicaf Society.
In the evening DR.. George a. Harter,
president of Delaware College, will make
a report on behalf of the committee OH
horticultural education. o. II. Benson,
of the United States Department of Agri-
culture. will discuss the education of the
American boy. DR.. J. II. Squires will
give an illustrated lecture on the use of
dynamite in horticulture.
The Wednesday morning session will
begin at o'clock. J. w Killen, FELTON,,
Del; ]. w. Kerr, Denton, Md J. Frank
Moore, Dover, Del; w. f. Allen, Sails
bury, Md; will respond respectively on
Il ~ II II
New Fruits and Small Fruits. Horace
Roberts, Moorestown, n. J., will discuss
Success with Strawberries"
The afternoon program follows: Con
troll of Insect Pests and Diseases, " Prof.
Thomas B. Symons, State Horticulturist
of Maryland; Report of the Committee
on Market Gardening G. ]. Meredith,
FELTON,. Del. "Sweet Potato Culture,
Harvesting and Curing Homer {.
Thompson, Assistant HOrtculturist, De
partruert- y Agriculture; Commercial
. Market Gardening, " George Morrison,
ands FIRMS, Baltimore County, Md;
reight Rates as Affecting Market Gar
ling. " +. w. Jenkins Dover, Del.
It the evening session there will be
illustrated lectures; one by o. H.
B, nson regarding the training of rural
and village girls for home life the other
on Horticulture bv Richard Vincent, Jr.,
Whitemarsh, Md.
Thursday morning at 9 O'Clock will
take place the election of officers for 1918.
w. G. Dawson, Cambridge, Md, will re
mort for the committee on fertilizers.
Horace Roperts will discuss Secondary
Crops in the Orchard {. L. Opperman,
College Park, Md, Combining Poultry
with Horticulture. ~
At the afternoon session on Thursday,
Logan w. Page, director of the Office of
Public Roads, washington, d. c., will
discuss Economic Advantages of I'm
proved Roads, w. Irving Walker, of
Chestertown, Md, will present the sub
iect, Good Roads in the State of Mary
land" and make a report for the COM
mittee on transportation.
The closing exercises of the exercises
of the Peninsula Horticultural Society
will merge into the opening exercises of
the Sixth Annual Delaware State Corn
Show. which will be held in the dupont
building in the same rooms that will be
occupied BY the Horticultural Society,
making up an entire week devoted to the
interests of horticulture and grain grow
ing.
ers' Association is more and better gram
for Delaware. =" The officers of this as
sociation are Arnold Naudain, Marshall
tom. president; James T. Shallcross, Mid
dletown, vice-president for New Castle
county; Gamaliel Garrison, Kenton, vice
president for Kent county; w. S. Davis,
Bridgeville, vice president for Sussex
county; Prof. A. f. Grantham, Newark,
secretary treasurer.
In announcing the program, Professor
Crantham says;
Especial effort is being put forth to
make the sixth annual Delaware State
Corn Show the largest, best and most in