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HORTICULTURE 



'February 8, 190S 



FORMOSA 



LILIUIYI 



LOIMCIFP.ORUIVI 



Pnds the Growers' trruble 

 Abso utely free Trom Disease 



WESTERN NEW YORK HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



Horticulturists from iiiauy states 

 attonded the oSrd annual raeetiny 

 of thi? Western New York Horticul- 

 tural Society, which convened in Roch- 

 ester .January 22 and 23. It was the 

 largest and most successfu series of 

 sessions ever held by the society. The 

 fruit exhibit was a grand display. 

 Over a thousand plates of apples, pears 

 and grapes were arranged on long ta- 

 ble.s. and the aisles were crowded all 

 the time with interested growers. The 

 larger part of the exhibit was from the 

 State Experiment Station at Geneva, 

 also a good-sized display from the Ell- 

 wanger & Barry nurseries, a number 

 of plates of apples from the A. J. 

 Smith farm, Gasport, and a table of 

 apples of enormous size from Spokane, 

 Wash., the exhibit of the Washington 

 Real Estate Association. 



The report of Secretary-Treasurer 

 John Hall, as to the financial condi- 

 tion of the society, was gratifying. F. 

 E. Rupert, chairman of the State Fair 

 Fruit Exhibit committee, reported that 

 the society won the first prize at the 

 State Fair, though it was by a scant 

 margin and he urged that the members 

 pay more attention next fall and con- 

 tribute more fruit. 



William C. Barry, president of the 

 societv since 3S90, delivered his ad- 

 dress. He referred to the age of the 

 society and what it had accomplished 

 for fruit growers. Dr. W. H. Jordan, 

 director of the New York Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, Geneva, spoke of 

 "Twenty-five Years of Experiment 

 Station Work." "Tillage vs. the Sod- 

 Mulch," by Prof. U. P. Hedrick, was 

 an address of interest. There has long 

 been contention between the factions 

 that support the two methods of fruit 

 culture. The conclusions of the 

 speaker were strongly in support of 

 tilling the soil and against the sod 

 mulch method, and he cited many facts 

 In support of his position. 



Mr. C. Burritt of Cornell University 

 gave a pai)er on "Co-operation in the 

 Packing and Marketing of Orchard 

 Fruits." Prof. P. J. Parrott, entomolo- 

 gist at the State Expeiiment Station, 

 spoke on "Some Observations on Fruit 

 Insects." He gave a comprehensive 

 outline of the various pests that in- 

 fested apple trees, also of the use of 

 spraving machines. Great interest was 

 manifested in his talk on the San Jose 



Prof. F. C. Stewart, of the Experi- 

 ment Station, chairman of the commit- 

 tee on botany and plant diseases, re- 

 ported in part as follows: "So far as 

 fruit diseases in New York are con- 

 cerned the past year was in no way 

 especially noteworthy. There was no 

 remarkaijle outbreak of any new di- 

 sease and no alarming epidemic of the 

 old ones. Neither are we aware of any 

 strikingly important discoveries on the 

 cause or control of the fiiiit diseases. 

 In short. 1907 was just an ordinary 



year in which fruit growers have had 

 their usual troubles with fungus di- 

 seases, while plant pathologists, the 

 world over, have been gradually ex- 

 tending our knowledge of things. 



"Grape growers may be interested 

 to know that the Ohio station is mak- 

 ing an investigation of the dying of its 

 bearing grape vines. It appears to 

 be the same as a disease occuring in 

 the Chautauqua grape belt of this 

 state, where it is known as the 'side 

 arm' disease.- Other station investiga- 

 tions of interest to grape growers are 

 the spraying experiments and black rot 

 wtudies which the Cornell station has 

 under way. 



"Another subject to which we have 

 given some attention at the station 

 recently is a carnation disease called 

 bud-rot. For many years florists have 

 had more or less trouble with carna- 

 tion buds failing to open properly. 

 The only treatment which can be rec- 

 ommended is the gathering and burn- 

 ing of diseased buds." 



There were many more speakers, 

 and many subjects considered during 

 the sessions. George T. Powell, of 

 Ghent, conducted the members' hour, 

 in which anyone in the audience was 

 permitted to ask questions, or speak 

 on any subject which interested him. 

 Six minutes was allowed each speaker, 

 and the time was filled with many 

 pertinent remarks from fruit growers. 



The committee on resolutions 

 summed up the work accomplished by 

 the meeting and referred to the time 

 given to the discussion of soil improve- 

 ment as being in the best interest ol 

 the membership and closely related to 

 the social problem affecting the mi- 

 gration from rural sections to villai^e:-. 

 and cities. The resolutions recom- 

 mended that the members work for a 

 liberal appropriation by the Legisla- 

 ture to expand the work. 



The officers for the ensuing year are 

 as follows: President, William C. 

 Barry, Rochester; vice-presidents. S. 

 D. Willard. Geneva; J. S. Woodward. 

 Lockport; S. W. Waddams, Clarkson; 

 Albert Wood, Carlton; secretary-treas- 

 urer, John Hall, Rochester. 



PERSONAL. 



Edw. Roehrs of Rutherford. N. J., 

 is in Boston this week. 



J. K. M. L. Farquhar of Boston vis- 

 ited New York this week. 



■Visitors in Chicago: Wm. Hage- 

 mann. New York; Emil Pielke, Gene- 

 va, III. 



B. D. Kapteyn, representing Gt. van 

 Waveren & Kruyff, Sassenheim, Hol- 

 land, is in New York this week. 



L. D. Robinson, Sr., Springfield, 

 Mass., has had an attack of the grippe 

 which has developed into erysipelas 

 in the head. 



Mark Aitken, florist, of Springfield, 

 Mass., who has been ill with pneu- 

 monia for two w-eeks, is reported to 

 be improving. 



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