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the State and the County Horticultural Societies, touched upon the vast 

 benefits to be gained from these annual meeting's, and his address was 

 greeted with every mark of approval by those in attendance. The re- 

 sponse on behalf of the vistors was delivered "by Prof. T. C. Miller, super- 

 intendent of Public Schools of Charleston. 



The President's annual address was next delivered by the Hon. 

 Mr. Clohan, and was received with marked attention, such as is always 

 accorded the utterances of one who has done so much for the develop- 

 ment of the fruit industry of any state. 



After the appointment of committees the regular program was 

 taken up. The first paper was on "Commercial Apples of West Vir- 

 ginia," by C. P. Rothwell of Martinsburg. In hearing this paper one 

 would think he was in Missouri, so near our favorites were the West 

 Virginia commercial apples, for Ben Davis gets no black eye in West 

 Virginia. However, York Imperial heads the list. A very striking 

 character of the Yorks grown in this district near its original home is 

 its uniformity in size and shapeliness, while in the latter respect it is 

 usually quite eccentric as grown in the west. York also colors splen- 

 didly, which is a very important factor in the commercial apple, and 

 especiall}' with this variety. 



In his paper, "Some Problems of the Orchardist," by Mr. S. W. 

 Moore of Elwell, W^est Virginia, he told us how he managed spraying 

 his steep hillside orchard. As it was impossible for him to haul his mixed 

 spray material up the steep hillside, he dug out and constructed a reser- 

 voir near the top of the hill to catch the rain water that fell ; this en- 

 abled him to spray down the hill and go up the hill empty for his ma- 

 terial. By so doing he solved the problem of spraying his orchard. 



Mr. D. W^ Border of Kearneysville presented a paper on the "Care 

 of Bearing Orchards," and gave many valuable lessons. 



In the "Horticultural Development in the South," Prof. Guy L. 

 Stewart of Columbia, South Carolina, gave some wonderful statistics 

 of the fruit industry of the south. 



Papers were read on small fruits, strawberries and raspberries by 

 D. Gold Miller of Inwood ; on blackberries, by Chas. D. Nell of Chester. 



"Frog-eye Fungus, Its Cause and Effect," by Dr. John L. Sheldon 

 of the Experiment Station at Morgantown, detailed the principal feat- 

 ures of this fungus and the manner of eradicating it. The speaker 

 also answered many questions on this subject. 



"Some Results of Potato Investigation in 1905" was a paper by 

 Prof. T. C. Johnson of the Experiment Station. Prof. Johnson was 

 recently connected with the Missouri Agricultural College, and has met 



