1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
OHIO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Part I. 
The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the 
Ohio State Horticultural Society was held 
at Clyde, December 16-18. Clyde is the cen¬ 
ter of a great nursery and fruit-growing 
section of Ohio, and the local Interest and 
attendance were greater than for several 
years past. The ad-lnterim reports from 
various districts of the State indicate that 
there were variable crops of tree and small 
fruits in different parts of Ohio this year. 
Cultivation of the soil was seriously in¬ 
terfered with, and a great loss sustained 
in the ripening fruit by an over-abundance 
of rain in the counties bordering on Lake 
Brie. Strawberry fields, as a result, are 
reported to be more or less foul with weeds 
and grass, and the plants, which were 
produced in great profusion, small, weak 
and poorly rooted. Hence, the outlook for 
the harvest of 1903 is not very reassuring 
to the strawberry grower. In the central 
and southern parts of the State the straw¬ 
berry crop was quite short, caused in part 
by the remarkably cool, dry weather just 
at the stage when berries should have had 
sunshine and moisture to promote rapid 
development. As it was, the berries came 
to a standstill In growth when less than 
half grown, and did not fully recover from 
the check during the ripening period thus 
seriously delayed. Those who have here¬ 
tofore practiced growing strawberries with¬ 
out mulching seem to have had a great 
lesson “rubbed in” by the experiences of 
the wet season in the northern belt. It is 
evident that mulching will be more gen¬ 
erally practiced hereafter. The Uncle Jim 
strawberry was the only new variety men¬ 
tioned with especial praise by ad-interim 
members. 
Barly Harvest, Erie and, Eldorado black¬ 
berries were generally spoken of as our 
best varieties. Loudon red raspberry con¬ 
tinues to be very subject to crown and root 
gall, while the King remains practically 
free from this serious and fatal disease. 
Kansas and Cumberland are generally 
voted the best of our blackcap raspberries. 
The grape and plum crops seem more and 
more difficult to secure. Thorough and 
continued spraying with Bordeaux seems, 
with but few exceptions, to be the differ¬ 
ence between a crop and no crop of these 
delicious fruits. Many of our largest and 
finest varieties of plums are very likely to 
be attacked by the brown rot just at, or 
a short time previous, to the period of ma¬ 
turity. There are, however, three varie¬ 
ties of large, late, showy plums of excel¬ 
lent quality which are reported to be 
quite free from rot. They are Grand Duke, 
Arch Duke and Monarch. The first is a 
somewhat slow grower unless top-worked 
upon stocks of varieties of vigorous habits 
of growth, but the latter named varieties 
are free, vigorous growers. Peaches along 
the lake shore, which embraces the north¬ 
ern tier of counties, were a very heavy 
crop and sold from 50 cents to $1.50 per 
bushel. Many thousands of bushels, how¬ 
ever, rotted on the trees because of the 
extremely wet season. The writer saw a 
fine, well-cared for peach orchard on the 
peninsula in eastern Ottawa County, in 
which were lost fully 600 bushels of fruit 
which, had it not been for the rainy sea¬ 
son, would have returned the grower an 
equal number of dollars. 
In the discussion of the reports the same 
old fight came up in regard to the Ben 
Davis apple and Kieffer pear. The most 
bitter enemies of these two well-known 
fruits attempted to sit down upon them so 
hard as to extinguish their discussion; but 
various members came to the rescue with 
facts and figures which seemed to prove 
unanswerable. Especially was this true in 
regard to the Kieffer. One grower said his 
Kieffers sold in preference to Bartlett— 
that is, customers preferred to wait for 
the Kieffer as a canning pear at prices 
equal to those paid for Bartletts in their 
season. Others declared they would prefer 
to grow Kieffers at 25 cents per bushel 
rather than Bartletts at $1 per bushel. The 
facts came to the surface that northern 
grown Kieffers, if produced on sandy soil 
and properly ripened in crates in a cool, 
dark place are really fair to eat and ex¬ 
cellent for canning. It is not fair to term 
the Kieffer the Ben Davis among pears, as 
it is really excellent for culinary use, 
while Ben Davis is the same insipid old 
chap no matter where he lands. Quite a 
degree of success was reported in thinning 
pears. The yield, size and attractiveness 
of the fruit are much improved by taking 
off not only the smaller, more imperfect 
specimens, but much of the perfect fruit 
just as soon in the season as the little 
pears are fully formed. The advantages 
of thinning are not fully realized when the 
strength of the tree is unnecessarily taxed 
by supporting the surplus fruits until they 
are far along in their growth before re¬ 
moval. 
Only good words are heard of Rome 
Beauty and York Imperial apples for the 
latitude of central and southern Ohio. 
Baldwin, Red Canada and Baltimore are 
well adapted to the northern section of 
the State while Grimes Golden is a popular 
variety everywhere. As to the culture of 
apple orchards the members are pretty 
well divided in opinions and practices, and 
are likely to remain so. But, with few ex¬ 
ceptions, no matter what may be their per¬ 
sonal belief and practice, the apple grow¬ 
ers of Ohio show great respect to the "sod 
culture” so thoroughly practiced by Mr. 
Vergon, who is with the foremost in the 
production of fine apples in our State. Our 
scientific men are also broad enough to 
recognize the peculiar merits and ad¬ 
vantages of “mowing and mulching” for 
those who have naturally fertile soil, and 
especially for those who have only steep, 
hilly ground. There were a few reports of 
an “old-fashioned” apple crop, the past 
season, where no spraying had been done. 
Further inquiry developed the fact that a 
great part of this crop was wormy, how¬ 
ever. Dr. Chamberlain said that a crop of 
apples, in a season of abundant bloom 
and generous setting of fruit, was by no 
means impossible, even where no spraying 
was done. The requirements are that there 
shall be sufficient fruit for both the insects 
and the grower. This means, however, 
only a fair crop of imperfect apples. The 
profit comes in bringing an ordinary set¬ 
ting of fruit to perfection in spite of the 
enemies, which are vanquished by spray¬ 
ing. Very satisfactory results followed 
the use of arsenate of lead or Disparene 
as an insecticide the past season. Some 
growers use eight ounces of Paris-green 
and three pounds of Disparene to 50 gal¬ 
lons of Bordeaux. In discussing pruning 
and training of apple trees it was said 
that one cannot afford to grow apples more 
than 12 feet from the ground. This means 
low heading, which was objected to by Dr. 
Chamberlain who cultivates his orchard. 
It was his belief that the fruit would not 
color so well on low branched trees as 
upon his own, which are headed at the 
height of about five feet and which, when 
heavily laden with fruit, droop in um¬ 
brella shape—the tips of the branches al¬ 
most touching the ground. He is willing 
to pick a less percentage from the ground 
and then go up into the tops, on a 30-foot 
ladder, to gather his perfectly colored ap¬ 
ples. One member who has always care¬ 
fully saved his potato vines for mulching 
purposes reported a surprising result of 
mulching a section of a row of young 
grapevines growing from cuttings. The 
potato vines, in this case, were blighted 
and the young grapevines, just so far as 
they had been mulched with the diseased 
potato tops blighted sear and dead. Was 
the Potato blight the direct cause of the 
Grape blight? f. h. baxlou. 
Ohio. 
Early King Blackberry. 
F. E. H., Bucprua, Kan .—Will you describe 
Early King blackberry? How does it com¬ 
pare with Early Harvest? The latter is 
very poor in quality here—far inferior to 
Snyder. 
Ans. —The Early King blackberry Is 
a few days earlier than Early Harvest, 
and the berry of larger size. I have al¬ 
ways considered Early Harvest of good 
quality when well grown, and am sur¬ 
prised at the statement that it is of poor 
quality in Kansas and inferior to Sny¬ 
der. I have grown the latter in that 
State and always thought it inferior to 
the Early Harvest although more hardy 
in bush. If grown or ripened during a 
drought these and all other blackberries 
are almost sure to be seedy and of poor 
quality. The bushes of Early King are 
rather low in habit but bear well. They 
d.re not so hardy as those of the Snyder. 
H. E. V. D. 
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THE EGUPSE 
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THE GREAT 
First choice among winter apples 
is the York Impertal. Hardy, 
juicy, fine flavored, long keeping 
and an enormous liearer. Should 
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Most complete assortment of choice 
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A FAYORITE. 
Why is the Arctic Peach becoming 
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them ? 
Answer.— Because it is a good-sized 
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is so hardy that it produces a full crop 
when all other varieties fail. They can 
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THIS CHECK 
&i\d several smaller ones 
I received the past season 
for Strawberries (not 
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have only the best. It 
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again. Address, 
W. F. ALLEN, Salisbury. Md. 
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