Milford chronicle., 1922-07-21
HORTTCULTURIST MEET
AT EASTON AND BERLIN
The SUMMER MEETING OF MARYLAND
STATE AND PENINSULA HORTICUL-
TURAL SOCIETIES.
PROMINENT men PRESENT
INSPECT NURSERIES, ENJOY A REAL
OLD-TIME COUNTRY DINNER AND
VISIT OCEAN CITY.

'@INA OSAAAN VA
The summer meeting of the Mary
land State Horticultural Society, in
conjunction with the Peninsula Hor-
tlcultural Society, held meetings on
July 13, and IA at Easton, Berlin and
Ocean City.
Last week Berlin, Md, was the
mecca for horticulturists of Mary
land Delaware, New Jersey and Vir-
ginia.
Visitors began to arrive Thursday
night and Friday morning the number
was augmented by the crowds from
New Jersey and Delaware. Later in
| the day the touring party came in
from an inspection of. the orchards
at Easton, arriving just in time for the
bountiful luncheon provided by Har-
risOns' Nurseries for all the visitors.
A real old-time country dinner was
served in the 5-acre packing shed to
large crowd, after which automo-
bile transportation was provided for
tour of the orchards.
After short addressed by Andrew
Cohill, Pres. of Maryland Hort. So
ciety; Sen. Orlando Harrison, of Har-
risOns Nurseries; DR.. G. Harry, Pres.
of Maryland Agri. Society; DR.. A. F.
Wood, Pres. Maryland University;
Sen. c. R. Disharoon, of Wicomico
county, VIM. F. Allen, fruit grower of
WicOmico county; w. R. Beatty, U.
S. Dept. of Agri.; e. P. Cohill, one of
the founders of the Md. State Hort.
Society, and Sen. Roberts, of New Jer-
Tfr xrfCff fO5 kI1 ~.
chard, located on the Berlin-Snow Hill
road. The principle item of interest in
this orchard was the large crop of
Belle of Georgia and the extraordinary
size OF the Carman peaches. Forty-five
peaches to a 5s basket gives some
idea of the size that these beauties
have attained, In this orchard demon
strations of the method of preparing
the peach trees and applying Para
dichlorobenzene for the control of
peach tree bOrers was arranged un-
der the auspices of the county agent,
Mr.. E. I. Oswald and State ,Entomolo-
gist, Prof. E. N. Cory.
From there the party returned to
Ironshire and viewed the large blocks
of peach and apple trees and other
nursery stock, aggregating ten million
trees. From there the tourist went to
the Squire Farm, where the principle |
item of interest was the wonderfully |
fine crop of Williams Early Red ap- |
pies. The Black TWig orchard on this |
farm bore approximately one barrel |
of apples to the tree at six years of |
age and has been bearing a full crop |
each year since that time. This is re-
markable for this variety, as the para
gon is notably a late bearer.
Visit was next made to the farm !
where Admiral Commodore Stephen |
Decatur was born, which is now an
eleven thousand tree orchard in full
bearing. In this orchard there was an
early variety of peach ripening and
the visitors regaled themselves to
their hearts content.
The party then proceeded to the
Home Orchard and paid particular at
tentiOn there to the excellent equip
ment for preparing spray materials
and for handling the spraying prob
lem. In this orchard as in all of the
others, elevated platforms with from
two to three cookers and running wa
ter are used in preparing both the
dormant spray material and summer
sprays.
One of the most important factors
in the success of these orchards is /
the thorough way in which they are
sprayed from the time the buds begin
to swell to the time the peaches are
off the trees. A complete coating of
lime and sulphur is main
tanned throughout the season. Another
remarkable sight at the Home Farm
was the eighteen year old Elberta
peach orchard, which has a crop this
year and has borne crop for the last
thirteen years. This is probably the
best producing orchard to be found
in the United States. There aTJSlga
thousand trees in. this orchard aN,s<
they havel borne as high as thirty
carloads OF first class fruit in sea-
son. This orchard, although a great
age for a peach orchard, is showing
no signs of failing and of the original
planting of two thousand trees, prac-
tically all of them are still standing.
The facilities for packing and load
ing the cars at the packing shed at
.racted a great deal of attention on
account of the amount of fruit going
)ut from this station each year. To
late fifty cars of Yellow Transparent
lpples and ten cars of peaches have
moved from this point. There will be
lbout three hundred cars of peaches
md one hundred and fifty cars of ap-
)les handled by this organization. The
ruit is packed in the shed right along
tide of a switch capable Of holding 40
,ars and carriers are shunted into
ced cars on gravity rollers carriers,
md shipped as far west as Indianap-
Ills and north into Canada, and into
he leading southern cities.
After the tour great many of the
-isitors went to Ocean City for the
Weekend to enjoy the surf bathing.