Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-09-07
ORCHARD MEETING sept. 20
State Horticultural Society This
Year Visits Grand Isle.
Public, Including Ladies', Welcome
booming New England Fruit show,
Mt Montpelier, Nov. 13-1S-So-
ciety Meets with 1t.

The seventh annual summer meeting
Of the Vermont State Horticultural So
cety will be held on September 20 among
the orchards Of the Grand Isle county
fruit-growers. The general public, in
Guiding women, is invited.
These meetings have been growing in
Importance from year to year and tho
secretary of the society, Prof NJ. Is. Cum
minGs. head of the department of horticul-
ture of the agricultural society, expects
an unusually we'll attended gathering.
Among the speakers besides Professor
Cummings will he President j.. H. West
of Dorset and b. f. Lutman professor of
plant pathology at the college.
The train will leave burlington at 9:5
a. m. and return the same day, arriving
al $40 y. m. The rest of the morning and
the entire afternoon will he given up to
visiting the orchards. The varieties of
| apple trees especially, methods Of culture.
the work of insects and tree diseases. if
available, and ways of grading, packing.
storing and marketing the fruit will he
| studied at first hand
! Autos will be provided for local trips
among the orchards. Dinner will he
eaten at South Hero Inn. or basket
! lunches may he taken, while the Ladies'
Aid society of the village will serve sup
| per. Come for day among the islands
| of Lake Champlain. Good orchards; fine
roads; unparalleled scenery; much to see
and learn" That's the way tho program
and invitation reads.
| AS many as 800 or moro persons have
attended these annual meetings of the
Horticultural soclory, says Professor
Cummings.
This part of the State is famous for its
orchards. which produce apples uneXcelled
anywhere in Vermont. For more than a
century apple trees have heen hlossominG
and bearing fruit. In 1915 a good size
orchard was set out on the Dan Dixon
| farm. In 1915 there vas an orchard of
ten acres on Broad Acres farm, which
Welded in one year 900 bushels, mostly
cider apples and 70 bushels of graft apples
Rhode Island greetings, Sptzenbergs
and Gllnowcrs. French Canadians bought
them at ten cents hushel. The largest
apple orchard on the island in 1S66 was n
l2-acre piece near Isle La Motto The
orchard produced 100 barrels of Rhode
Island greetings one season, record con-
sdercd extraordinary at the time.
Now the center of Isle La Note. in
the words of Prof, w. ~ Phelps of South
Hero, is "a wilderness of fruit trees.
Oliver Thomas has 80 acres; Arthur Hill,
%; II. II. Hin, 20: Edgar Fleury, 90; Les
lie Pike, 70. Now Nathan Hill, Dan from
blcy, Wilbur Hill, Dyer Hall and a. II.
Hill, all have fine apple orchards"
In 1896 Grand Telc county produced o.
coo barrels of fine graft apples. Isle La
Motto, 22,OGo barrels; South Hero, 5000
Grand Isle, 10000: Alburg and North Hero
5000 barrels. on the DOoan farm, Isle La
Motto, II barrels Of No. Cooper Market
iapplcs were picked from one tree and sold
Toy $40, not to mention four barrels OF
windfalls. In 1902, G. T. Holiness orchard
in Charlotte, rs acres, yielded 300 bar
rels, which sold for net profit of Sl2 600
which in 1909 was $4,000. The entire Cham,
, plain valley has long been famous tor it.
apples.
| NEW ENGLAND FRUIT SHOW.
Tho Horticultural society will meet this
fall, November AIS, with the New Eng
land Fruit Show at Montpelier. The meet
ing will last three days and addresses anC
: demonstrations will be given by experts
: ~ H. L.,