CHAPTER VI. 



CONVENTIONS OF NATIONAL SOCIETIES 

 PERTAINING TO HORTICULTURE FOR 

 THE YEAR 1889. 



/. American Pomological Society. 



The 22d session of the American Pomological Society was 

 held in Ocala, Florida, February 20, 21 and 22. The conven- 

 tion was well attended and the papers and discussions through, 

 out were elevated and instructive. The Report of this meet- 

 ing is the largest yet issued by the Society, and is in some re- 

 spects the best. It is particularly full upon the citrus and 

 other sub-tropical fruits. Indeed, it is the best contribution 

 yet made to the knowledge of our Southern horticulture 

 and the meeting is one of the most important events in the 

 neglected yet growing horticulture of the Gulf States. The 

 leading papers and discussions of the volume are as follows : 



President's Address — Prosper J. Berckmans. 

 Cross-Fertilization — J. C. Neal. 

 Unsolved Problems in Pomology — E. S. Goff. 

 The Plum Curculio — C. V. Riley. 



Results of Recent Experiments in the Treatment of Vine Diseases — 

 B. T. Galloway. 



The Chemistry of Peach Yellows — E. F. Smith. 

 Botanical Names — D. W. Adams. 



Reserve Food Materials in Fruit Trees and Shrubs in Mid-Winter — 

 B. D. Halsted. 



Gluts, their Cause and Remedy — Barnett Brothers. 

 The Packing of Fruit for Market— P. M. Augur. 

 Honesty in Packing Fruit — E. Williams. 

 . Fruit Marketing and Fruit Exchanges— A. M. Brown. 

 The Delaware Fruit Exchange — Wesley Webb. 



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