Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-05-08
FRUIT GROWERS
SECOND MEETING
VALLEY HORTICULTURALISTS
MEET IN KINGSvILLE.
Society Will Raise Five Hundred
Dollars for Publicity Fund-Prizes
Offered in Various Branches of
Fruit and Flower Culture.

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of the Rio Grande Horticultural So
ciety was very full one but the
Kingsville Field Day, last Saturday.
held much more of real interest to
the actual grower: this was SO no
ticeable that several said they could
not afford to miss a single one of
these field days as they learned SO
much.
Those from up the Branch and
some others arrived on Friday night
and there were pleasant talks and
introducions that evening, but the
real program began Saturday morn
ing when after being photographed.
eight or ten auto loads of horticul-
turists left Kings Inn and went first
to San Gertrudis ranch and saw lis
gradens, it's mighty Mustang grape
vine, its old houses and trees. Then
the party returned 10 Col Yoakum's
orchard which was protected by fire
pots and saw Washington Navel,
pineapple, Satsuma and other var
ieties of oranges, uninjured by the
frosts and set full Of fruit.
In town they saw six grape vines
which were Malagas grated on Mus
tang roots some five or =ix years ago
by the society's vice president, Mr..
Arbenz. These have grown luxur-
iantly since over an arbor and are
now set full of frui, Then going
through the town and past some Of
its truck fields, the party went 10 Mr..
Flato's vineyard and orchard at
Ricardo, where he has young orange,
lemon, fig, peach and other fruit
trees and lot of grape vines coming
along in fine shape.
This took till after twelve and
Ghen came dinner and an auto ride
about a mile out of town where ac-
tual demonstration Of digging holes
to plant fruit trees and vines by dy-
Mantle was made, dynamiting for
subsoil blowing and blowing up trees
to clear the ground; full explana-
tions were given by Mr.. Waldo and
everyone was convinced there was a
good deal in this dynamiting.
Returning to town, the lecture
meeting was at once called to order
in the opera house by the society's
president, Eltweed Pomeroy After
the passing of the minutes of the
previous meeting, fifteen new mem
bers were received in to the society.
The president made a report for the
executive committee showing how
they had already secured prizes ag-
gregating between one and two thou
sand dollars in value and had pub
lished their first bulletin Of these
but since this had gone to the printer
two new prizes had been secured.
The intermittent preceding com
pany, who have erected a plant at
San Benito, have offered to p, cool
free of charge, the frs, three cars of
grapes or peaches brought to them
AS the charge is $500 a car, this
means a prize Of $500. Several
said they would claim it next year.
Then the Fresno California;
Nursery has offered 100 deciduous
fruit trees and 1000 grape vines for
prizes to be selected by the socie,y's
president, but he referred it to the
executive committee and they had
decided to break this up into | 0 fir,
prizes of ten fruit trees each and
10 second prizes of 100 grape vines
each, and give these prizes r|photo-
graphs of the best orange tree, lemon
! tree, grape fruit tree, peach, fig,
pecan, English walnut and olive tree
and the best vinifera or California
grape vine, and the best American
or hybrid grape vine. These photos
are to be not les than 4X5 inches,
are to become the property of the
society and be accompanied by a de-
scription of not over 100 words.
MIR. Bowyer of San Benito has also
generously offered to give a some
what similar group of prizes for
best photos of rose bushes, shade
trees, etc. These prizes will be
awarded at the November meeting Of
the society.
The president further announced
that the society had through its
executive committee chosen T. ].
Hooks of Donna. and c. z. Craig OF
Lyford, two generous contributors to
its funds. as honorary vice presi-
dents.
Further the publicity necessary
for these prizes, costs money and the