1905. 
39 
NEW JERSEY STATE HORTICUL¬ 
TURAL SOCIETY MEETS. 
The New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety hold its thirtieth annual meeting in 
Trenton, January 5-6. The sessions were 
very well attended, and the tone of the meet¬ 
ing was practical throughout. A very encour¬ 
aging feature was the increased number of in¬ 
terested young men attentively listening to 
the addresses and discussions. Little the¬ 
orizing was indulged in at any stage of the 
proceedings, and there was a notable scarcity 
of experiment station lecturers. The topic of 
overshadowing Interest was control of San 
Jos6 scale, but much attention was bestowed 
on the “robin question,” marketing of prod¬ 
ucts and rural education, in the sense of more 
Intelligent instruction in country schools on 
subjects related to farm life. Reviews of the 
horticultural year in New Jersey as given in 
the president’s address and in various com¬ 
mittee reports brought out the following 
points: 
Most cereal and garden crops fair to good 
tHe season was generally favorable to plant 
growth, but especially so to development of 
pests. Fruit growing is rapidly passing into 
the hands of specialists, as close attention is 
needed not only to grow the crop, but to mar¬ 
ket it to advantage. Distribution is ham¬ 
pered by discrimination and irregularities in 
transportation. Home growers pay higher 
rates in proportion than western producers. 
The Interstate Commerce Commission should 
be given power to enforce Its decisions. Con¬ 
gressmen everywhere should lie urged to vote 
for (lie needed legislation. A National uni¬ 
form fruit package law Is also needed, as the 
various State laws cannot be enforced against 
shippers from other States. Co-operation be¬ 
tween growers aids In packing, shipping and 
marketing. The sentiment that school 
grounds and roadsides should be planted with 
ornamental trees and shrubs wherever prac¬ 
ticable was warmly endorsed. Better State 
legislation is needed to stay the progress of 
San Josfi scale and similar pests. Fruit grow¬ 
ers are generally alive to the danger, and are 
using the best means at command to control 
it, but the pest is now established in many 
waste places where it is only likely to be 
reached by public authority. The repeal of 
protective laws favoring the destructive robin 
is again urged. 
The Winter of 1003-4 was unusually se¬ 
vere, causing much loss among ornamentals 
and to peach and blackberry growers. Ex¬ 
posed orchards with good air drainage came 
through best. Orchards protected by Hills or 
forests on the north or west fared badly in 
many instances. Peach tree roots were killed 
on low light soils, but not on upland. Frost 
penetrated very deep. There were some good 
local crops of peaches, but generally a light 
yield. KiefTer pears bore a large crop of low 
quality. Young orchards did best. Bartlett 
and Le Conte pears sold fairly well, but there 
were too many cheap apples for good pear 
prices. Early apples are generally most profit¬ 
able for New Jersey growers. Yellow Trans¬ 
parent, Alexander, Williams Early, Wealthy 
and Ilagloe most promising. Low-headed va¬ 
rieties should lie planted, as they are easier 
to spray, prune and pick. Plums were gener¬ 
ally unprofitable. Wlckson brought best re¬ 
turns. Strawberries were a short crop, but 
sold for fair prices. Blackberries almost a 
failure on account of winter-killing; Ward 
and El Dorado most reliable so far. The 
raspberry crop was light, Cuthbert most profit¬ 
able ; Miller good color, but poor quality. Early 
King yields well <Jn heavy soil, good color and 
fair quality. Grapes were Irregular in yield; 
good crop in some localities and lotal failure 
in others. The culture of currants is being 
given up on account of scale. Cherries bore 
a fine crop, lint the sweet and early varieties 
were practically destroyed by birds. 
Among vegetables early peas did not return 
much profit. Early cabbage was largely trou¬ 
bled with maggot; lime proved best remedy. 
Melon blight grows worse yearly. Some ben¬ 
efit is noted from frequent applications of 
Bordeaux Mixture. Sweet potatoes are seri¬ 
ously affected with fungus in some portions 
of the State. No cure has been found. Ani¬ 
mal and chemical manure both give good re¬ 
sults in yield. Sugar corn was generally 
profitable, but too much white silo corn Is 
grown and offered to consumers as sugar corn. 
More early peppers are grown than can be 
sold to advantage. Potatoes gave a fair crop 
in most localities. Blight cut short some 
yields. Bordeaux Mixture does not always 
seem effective in controlling Potato blight. 
The State entomologist, Prof. J. B. Smith, 
reported the results of the year’s spraying 
operations throughout (lie State. San Josd 
scale at the present time is the worst pest 
the fruit grower must contend with. The 
lime, sulphur and salt solutions, so success¬ 
fully used in many eastern States in 1903, 
proved very uncertain in New Jersey in 1904 ; 
gave excellent results In some interior local¬ 
ities, especially on peach and plum; generally 
failed on pears and apples. Causes of failure 
unknown ; pear wood may be too smooth and 
apple twigs too fuzzy. If much lime Is used 
the thick solution does not seem to pene¬ 
trate the woolly coating of apple twigs, the 
scale survives and the larva? go out and dis¬ 
figure the fruit during growth. Thus appar- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
•ently clean trees may bear scaly fruit. It is rec¬ 
ommended to use sail, but not too much lime. 
The lime-sulpluir preparations are excellent 
fungicides for dormant trees, especially active 
on Peach leaf-curl. They occasionally hurt 
bloom buds on plum, but not on peach, apple 
or pear. Summer applications have not been 
satisfactory, as if solutions are strong enough 
to kill scale the foliage is also badly Injured. 
'1 ne caustic soda and caustic potash solutions 
so insistently recommended a year ago have 
been found to have no value whatever as 
scale killers, but are useful to clean the bark 
of trees from mossy growth. Of all the soap 
solutions, whale-oil soap, two pounds to the 
gallon of water, is most effective. Crude pe¬ 
troleum is really effective, but the public hears 
too much of a few tree losses to use it freely; 
appears to benefit old pear trees aside from 
its action in eradicating scale. The grade 
known as “insecticide oil” supplied by the 
Standard Oil Company from its Pennsylvania 
fields Is most reliable. Use heavy pressure 
through a tine nozzle. Apply as sparingly as 
consistent with covering every part of tree. 
Crude oil heated to 80 or more degrees goes 
twice as far as when cold ; may be conven¬ 
iently heated with steam. Limoid and kero¬ 
sene mixtures are very promising. Twigs 
from trees sprayed with a 20-per-cent solu¬ 
tion in November were found practically free 
from live scale. The combination will be 
largely tested the coming year. Other speak¬ 
ers warmly defended the lime, sulphur and 
salt combinations, pleading for purity of ma¬ 
terials, care in making up and thoroughness 
in application. They considered it. the most 
economical, safe and hopeful of all scale rem¬ 
edies and a valuable fungicide. 
Protecting our small fruits from the robin 
was the subject of an able paper by E. S. 
Black, Illghtstown. He showed that fruit 
growers have no desire to injure any bird, 
preferring to live in harmony with all nature, 
but robins and other fruit-eating birds have 
so increased in many localities as virtually to 
destroy the ripening crops of small fruits. 
The legislative committee of the society had 
asked for a modification of the present bird 
laws, allowing fruit growers to protect their 
crops under the necessary restrictions, but 
the bill was fought by town residents and 
sentimentalists knowing nothing of the prac¬ 
tical side of the matter, and defeated in the 
Assembly. After the scale the robin was the 
most serious menace to the grower, as he 
Invariably takes the choicest fruits, and can¬ 
not be frightened or cajoled away by any 
practical means. It is impossible economic¬ 
ally to protect fruits by netting and similar 
devices, nor is the robin fooled by trap crops 
of Inferior varieties. The grower only asks 
the privilege of protecting his products, and 
the appeal for a common-sense law will be 
continued until the demand is granted. 
Many excellent papers on practical subjects 
were read by experienced men. The question 
box was filled to overflowing, and lively discus¬ 
sions followed, in which much information 
was given. II. VV. Collingwood, of The R. 
N.-Y., made a stirring address on “Horticul¬ 
tural Education for the Country Boy," which 
was warmly applauded and received a special 
vote of thanks. The fruit exhibit in size and’ 
quality was far the best in the history of the 
society. All the present officers were re¬ 
elected for the ensuing year. An agreeable 
feature of the meeting was the very excellent 
vocal and instrumental music enlivening the 
afternoon and evening sessions. w. v. r. 
A CORRECTION 
When the seed advertisement of W. 
Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 
was published on page 4 of The R.N.-Y., 
.issue of January 7, it was thought that 
Burpee’s Seeds had won the only Grand 
Prize for vegetables at the St. Louis 
World’s Fair. Later, on his way to 
Mexico, Mr. Burpee learned that the 
Grand Prize for vegetables had also 
been awarded to J. M. Thorburn & Co., 
and Mr. Burpee promptly wired the 
publisher of The R. N.-Y. from New 
Orleans to make a prominent correction 
of the error. The telegram reached the 
paper too late for last week’s issue, but 
the correction is now made prominent 
at Mr. Burpee’s request. 
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