442 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The peach acreage in the United States was found to be 507,736; value 

 of produce, $76,160,400; hands employed, 226,000. Upward of $90,000,000 

 was found invested in peach-growing in the census year. 



Concerning the nursery interest, it was found that a capital of $52,425,- 

 669.51 is invested; 172,206 acres of land are used, and the grand total of 

 young trees in nurseries in 1889 was 3,386,855,778. Of these, 518,016,612 

 are fruit trees, 685,603,396 grape vines and small fruits, and the balance 

 nut, deciduous, and evergreen trees, hardy shrubs, and roses. 



The writer stated that in the final compilation of the completed census 

 the investment in horticultural pursuits will be shown to be more than 

 $1,000,000,000. 



For various reasons the writer urged that in the future collection of sta- 

 tistics everything pertaining to agriculture, including its census, should be 

 under the control of the Secretary of Agriculture. 



Other papers, either read or ordered printed in the report of the society 

 included — 



Does the Spraying of Orchards with Insecticides Pay? Prof. C. M. Weed, College of 

 Agriculture, Hanover, N. H. 



General Fruit Growing, G. C. Brackett, Lawrence, Kans. 



Fruit Notes from a Canadian Standpoint, L. Woolverton, Grimsby, Ont. 



Novelties in Pomology, H. E. Van Deman, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Pomological Resources of North Carolina, Prof. W. F. Massey, College of Agriculture, 

 Raleigh, N. C. 



Small Fruit Growing in Eastern and Middle North Carolina, J. Van Lindley, 

 Pomona, N. C. 



The Grapes of Middle Virginia, Hon. Henry L. Lyman, Charlottesville, Va. 



Fruits of Western North Carolina, H. S. Williams, Rockledge, Fla. 



The Revised Nomenclature of Japanese Fruits, L. A. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 



These papers, together with the discussions on them and the fruit cata- 

 logue of the society, will be found in the report of the society for the ses- 

 sion of 1891. 



The fruit exhibit, while not so large as at some former sessions of the 

 society, was a creditable one. Specimens of a number of the newer vari- 

 eties, as well as typical specimens of standard sorts, were donated by the 

 exhibitors to the division of pomology. Wax models have been made of 

 many of these for the working collection of the division. 



