32 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



ANNUAL MEETING, 1902, IOWA STATE HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



PROF. SAMUEL B. GREEN, DELEGATE. 



Your delegate to the convention of the Iowa State Horticultural 

 Society attended two days of the session. It was held in the rooms 

 of the society in the capitol, at Des Moines. The room is small and 

 could not accommodate more than seventy persons. The attendance 

 was good and well sustained throughout the meeting. Many more 

 would have been present had there been better facilities. It seems 

 that the quarters originally placed at the disposal of this society in 

 the state capitol were, by act of the legislature, taken from them and 

 used for the adjutant general, and the quarters that they now have 

 are not nearly large enough for their annual meeting. 



The papers and discussions were excellent, and your delegate is 

 pleased that you saw fit to send him. Among the points of especial 

 interest was a report from the delegates of neighboring state so- 

 cieties. 



Mr. Watrous reported from Missouri, where he had attended a 

 convention of apple growers. In his report special mention was 

 made of spraying — which brought out considerable discussion. It 

 was stated that some orchardists spray their apples as much as eight 

 times. A discussion on the value of dust spraying brought out inter- 

 esting data. It was stated that the dust spraying is increasing in 

 popularity on account of the ease with which it is applied. The gen- 

 eral sentiment seemed to be that it was not as good as spraying with 

 water, but on account of the ease with which it is. done, it is much 

 better adapted for those who have small orchards and for whom the 

 expense of a complete spraying plant was out of the question. Mr. 

 Reeves said that spraying was generally done poorly, and that what 

 we needed was better spraying. He said that he was very much in 

 favor of the use of the dust sprayers, but for this purpose the spray- 

 ing powder must be very fine. He thought he could do as much in 

 spraying with dust before breakfast as he could with an ordinary 

 liquid sprayer by working all day. He stated that a neighbor of his 

 had succeeded in getting good results in spraying for the codling 

 moth with a common dust bellows. 



A report as to whether Black Ben Davis and Gano are identical 

 was interesting. It is generally conceded that the varieties are nearly 

 identical in commercial value, and the Gano is the darker color of 

 the two. In the fruit exhibit, however, one grower showed very 



