264 State Horticultural Society. 



with the Missouri State Society, and many of our members have pleas- 

 ant recollections of him. 



Other papers were, "Possibilities of Truck Growing in West Vir- 

 ginia," by Prof. Stewart B. Shaw of Parkersburg; "Commercial Peach 

 Growing," by H. W. Miller, Paw Paw ; "The Woolly Aphis of Apple," 

 Prof. W. E. Rumsey, Morgantown ; "Some Troublesome Snout Beetles," 

 by Secretary Fred. E. Brooks. 



"The Work of the State Horticultural Society," by H. W. Colling- 

 wood, editor of the Rural New Yorker, was certainly grand. Mr. CoUing- 

 wood proved himself a very interesting and entertaining speaker. It 

 is a very rare thing that one has the privilege of listening to such a 

 speaker as Mr. Collingwood. His address and his presentation of a 

 gavel to the Society, made from the original Grimes Golden apple tree, 

 made a most entertaining occasion. The original tree grew in a patch 

 of wood on the farm of James Grimes near Wellsburg, Brooke county. 

 West Virginia. This address, together with President Clohan's accept- 

 ing the gavel, formed a very interesting feature of the meeting. 



A telegram was sent by the Society to President Roosevelt in 

 which the Society presented the President with a barrel of the finest 

 Grimes Golden apples on exhibition, grown by ex-Sheriff Smith of 

 Berkeley county, West Virginia. 



The display of fruit was certainly fine, containing over 100 varieties 

 of apples, six of peaches and six of pears, with a total of about 300 plates 

 of fruit. Your humble servant was appointed chairman of the Commit- 

 tee on Awards. In all thirty-seven prizes were awarded. On apples, 

 the first premium was on largest collection, consisting of 35 varieties, 

 to W. S. Miller, Paw Paw, Hampshire county. West Virginia; second 

 premium to 29 varieties by D. Gold Miller, Berkeley county. Largest 

 display of peaches, 12 plates, to Alleghany Orchard Company of Paw 

 Paw. 



On individual plates, single varieties, Berkeley county secured 15 

 awards; Barbour county, six; Lewis county, eight; Morgan county, 

 six ; Hancock and Mineral counties, one each. 



The "Quality of Commercial Apples" was a paper by Prof. W. N. 

 Hutt of College Park, Maryland, and the subject was most ably han- 

 dled. Many of us recollect Prof. Hutt in his recent visit with us at the 

 American Pomological meeting and the trip through the Ozarks. 



The last day of the meeting was spent in the orchards along the 

 famous "Apple-pie Ridge," where interesting exhibitions of spraying 

 by scientific methods were given by the American Horticultural Dis- 

 tributing Company, under the direction of the manager, J. W. Stewart. 

 For this they used their large four horse-power gasoline sprayer. In 



