Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-07-24
MANY PROMINENT SPEAKERS
Will ADDRESS "PEACH DAY.
GATHERING NEXT FRIDAY
DR.. Liberty Hyde Bailey, Dean Of
American Horticulturists, viii
Speak AT Berlin Meeting
MANY SPECIAL EVENTS
PLANNED FOR THE DAY

DR.. Liberty Hyde Bailey, Dean of
American Horticulturists and former
Dean of New York State College of
Agriculture at Cornell University,
will deliver one of the principal ad-
dresses at the joint Summer meeting
of the Maryland State Horticultural
Society, to be held at the Harrison
Nurseries, Berlin Nd, Friday July
3Oth.
DIR. Bailey is nationally recognized
as leading authority on horticultural
and agricultural subjects, and has
given particular attention to rural
problems and education. He served
as assistant to Asa Gray, in Harvard
in 1928; was a professor of horticul-
ture and landscape gardening in the
Michigan Agricultural College from
1886 to 1888; was professor of hor-
ticultural from 1888 to 1908 and direc-
tor of the College of Agriculture at
Cornell University from 1908 to 1918.
He was awarded the Veitchian medal
in 1898 and was awarded Fellow
ship in the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences; and is member
of the National Academy fSciences,
American Philos. Soc.; honorary
member of the Royal Horticultural
Society, of London; Horticultural So
ciety of Norway; Japan Agricultural
Society, the Horticultural Society of
Japan, Society of Landscape Archi-
tects, the Massachusetts horticultural
Society and the Rhode Island Horti-
cultural Society.
DR.. Bailey is also the author of a
long list Of works on horticulture and
agriculture which are accepted as
standard authority both nationally
and internationally. He served as edi-
tor in preparing the Cyclopedia of A
merican Horticulture, Cyclopedia of
American Agriculture and the STAN
dard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. He
is a regular contributor to leading
technical journals and magazines.
Other distinguished guests on the
program arranged for the meeting in
clude Gov. Albert G. Ritchie, of Mary
land, who will address the gathering
at the afternoon session. Other speak
ers will be :Gerrish Gassaway, mana
ger of the Wilmington Chamber of
Commerce; DR.. Walter Hullihen, pres
ident of the University of Delaware;
Wells A. Sherman, from the Bureau
of Economics; Robert S. French, gen.
eral manager and secretary of the
National League of Commission Mer-
chants, and Harvey J. Hill, executive
director of the Del-Mar-Va Eastern
Shore Association.
The program is arranged for
morning, afternoon and evening ses-
sion. The morning will be devoted to
a fruit packing demonstration on
peaches and apples at Harrison's pack
ing houses, by S. B. Shaw, Of the Fed
eral-State Inspection Bureau and an
examination of experimental fertiliz-
Ell Plots on peaches and apples, with
the experiments to be explained by
Professor E. C. Auchter, of the Uni
versity of Maryland.
Following luncheon, which will be
served on the lawns of the Harrison
Nurseries, an address of welcome will
be delivered by Senator Orlando Har-
1ison, to be followed by addresses by
Governor Ritchie, DR.. Bailey and Ger
rish Gassaway.
An automobile tour through the
various orchards and nurseries at Ber-
lin and to the Samuel d. Riddle es-
tate, home of "Man O'War," conclud-
ing at Ocean City, will follow. The
evening session will be held at Ocean
City where addresses will be deliver-
ed by the other speakers mentioned.
A question box on all orchard prob
lens will be conducted by G. H. Har~
rison, vice-president of Maryland
State Horticultural Society and for
mer president of the Maryland State
Horticultural Society and former
president of the Peninsula Hsrticul-
tural Society.
7 deieg- tio:i frc.n the Wilmington
Ch;. L-~ G C.sn,,, ere is expected.