283 STATE HOETICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



WOODLAND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



PREPARED BY SECRETARY DAVENPORT. 

 OFFICERS. 



President — Ira Stowell, Woodland. 



Vice President — B. S. Holly, Woodland. 



Secretary — Eugene Davenport, Woodland. 



Treasurer — Jesse Jordan, Woodland. 



Owing to bad weather the regular meeting was not attended, and the officers 

 above are those for 1880, the new officers not having been yet elected. 



Several experiments in keeping apples were tried last winter, most of them 

 failures. But it was found that apples packed in common land plaster kept 

 till August 1st, and were gone then only because the supply was exhausted. 

 Many were carried away as samples. Apples kept in this way seem to preserve 

 their flavor far more perfectly than by any other process ever known to the 

 writer, not excepting burying. 



Fruit of all kinds was less plenty here this year than last, especially peaches. 

 Apples were the nearest to a full crop. Cherries were injured in some places 

 by worms, and plums are generally given over to the ravages of the "peculiar," 

 as a local tree agent called him. Cabbage as a crop is almost a failure, owing 

 to the worm. 



In this region horticulture is not the vocation of any. General farming is 

 the business, and a garden for the home table is all that any expect to have. 

 Not returning a direct money profit, the real utility of a good garden is not 

 appreciated by many of our citizens. The society has done no important work 

 this year to be reported. The work for next year will, it is hoped, be in accord- 

 ance with some definite plan. Although not fully decided what it will be, it is 

 hoped that each member will take some one thing for his specialty, study its 

 habits, best kinds, methods of raising, enemies, etc. If this plan is followed 

 out, the secretary will have more to report another year. Even then a society 

 located in a purely agricultural district will not do the work of one in a section 

 where horticulture is the business of a large share of the inhabitants. 



