TRANSACTIONS OV ADAMS CO. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 259 



Autumn Apples — Maiden's Blush, Lowell, Fameuse, (Snow Apple), 

 Autumn Strawberry, Rambo, Fall Wine, Bailey's Sweet. 



Winter Apples — Ben Davis, Jonathan, Domine, Rawles' Janet, Win- 

 ter Rambo, Tolman's Sweet, Ortley (White Bellflower), Minkler, Milam, 

 Willow Twig, Yellow Bellflower, Esopus Spitzenburg. 



At the meeting of March 29th a subscription book was opened for 

 stock in a canning and drying establishment, and forty-seven shares of 

 twenty-five dollars each were subscribed. The amount was afterwards 

 increased to $50,000. 



The meetings, from March 29th to that of May loth, were takn up 

 in discussing the processes of canning and drying fruit and vegetables. 



At the meeting of this last date the modus opera7idi of planting and 

 cultivating raspberries and strawberries was discussed. W. H. Spurgeon 

 recommended thoroughly cleaning out and mulching between the rows 

 of strawberries, about two weeks before the ripening of the fruit. This 

 would prevent the plants from becoming swamped in the weeds during 

 picking season, and keep the fruit clean and the ground moist. Others 

 favored mulching all sorts of small fruits. The methods described and 

 recommended for setting out strawberry plants were amusing and 

 instructive ; all, however, agreed in one point, viz. : that they should be 

 planted in the ground. 



June 6th. — Messrs. Robbins, Ca.se, and Spurgeon, being severally 

 called upon, spoke of a new disease of the strawberry plants — a rust — 

 which appears soon after a heavy shower, which is followed by hot sun- 

 shine. This rust or blight had reduced the crop fully one-third, and the 

 vines struck with it had died, most of the old beds being entirely ruined. 



This was the last meeting held in 1873. 



W. H. SPURGEON, 

 Onarga, Jan. 15th, 1874. Corresponding Secretary. 



ADAMS COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Officers for 1874. — President — James Shinn ; Vice President — S. B. 

 Turner ; Recording Secretary — T. Butterworth ; Corresponding Secretary — 

 J. H. Hargis ; Treasurer — Thos. Sinnock. 



The proceedings of this Society have been published from month to 

 month during the past year, in the Western Agriculturist. This is a flour- 

 ishing society, doing good horticultural work. 



