38 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY [1914-15 



''The new Hale peach was exhibited and excited much 

 comment from the fact that unprotected specimens heaped 

 up on a plate, all through the week session, maintained a 

 fine appearance with no signs of decay. 



''A. C. Pomeroy, Rockport, N. Y., reported on the Per- 

 sian walnut, the so-called English walnut. He said he had 

 seven original trees planted by his father some 50 ^-^ears ago, 

 and from these he gathered this 3^ear, 35 bushes, 3^et l| 

 bushels for 12-year trees was about all one could expect. 



''He said that many were growing Persian walnuts in 

 New York, as they are more profitable than apples. They 

 do not have to go through the hands of the jobbers, need 

 no spraying, no ladder picking and there is no danger of a 

 glut. J. G. Rusk stated growing of these nuts is just as 

 profitable here as in California. 



"W. M. Scott, Maryland, read a paper on the control 

 of orchard pests. He found spraying all important and was 

 pleased to see it now becoming general and but for this 50 

 per cent, of the crops would be useless. The United States 

 now grows 40,000,000 barrels of apples each year, 90 per 

 cent, of which can be rendered perfect by spraying and even 

 the 10 per cent, can be eliminated with more thorough work. 



"The chestnut industry at home was considered by Pro- 

 fessor Collins, who stated that there were in America thirty 

 diseases attacking the chestnut including the new one, which 

 is reported from the Orient and is very destructive. It is 

 known by dead patches of bark with orange colored dots. 



"Our state was represented by Edward P. Wilder; Pro- 

 fessor Sears of the Massachusetts Agricultural College; 

 Wilfred Wheeler, secretary of Massachusetts Board of 

 Agriculture; Harold Frost, president of Massachusetts 

 Fruit Growers' Association. Our state was also represented 

 by a long hst of the very best apples and pears we know 

 with neither bruise nor blemish upon them. 



"The exhibition was a grand success, more than 2,500 

 separate exhibits were on the tables, of these 450 were 



