1907. 
NEW JERSEY HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY MEETS. 
The thirty-second alnnual meeting of the 
New Jersey State Horticultural Society, at 
Trenton, January .‘5-4, was exceedingly ■well 
attended, the spacious Assembly Chamber of 
the State House, in which the sessions were 
bold, being at times taxed to its capacity. 
It was an apple meeting—the king of fruits 
receiving far more attention from speakers 
and essayists than a.iiy of its rivals. The 
apple crop was far from uniform throughout 
the State, and was generally light, approach¬ 
ing failure in some localities. There were 
some profitable individual crops, however. 
Winesap grown in South Jersey selling for $4 
the barrel in Philadelphia and $0 when ex¬ 
ported to Holland, with an increasing demand 
from that snug little European country. 
Much concern was manifested over the threat¬ 
ened increase in the German tariff, to lake 
effect .Tune 150 if the pending reciprocity treaty 
is not ratified by our Senate, and a resolu¬ 
tion was passed asking the State Legisla¬ 
ture of New Jersey to urge their Senators in 
Washington to vote for the treaty. The in¬ 
crease in Germany, if the treaty fails, will be 
on fresh apples from the present rate of 50 
cents to $1.G5 per barrel, while on dried ap¬ 
ples, of which Germany is now our heaviest 
consumer, the rate will be Increased at least 
300 per cent. The general sentiment of the 
meeting appeared to favor the continued plant¬ 
ing of commercial apples in the State, the 
earlier kinds especially being recommended as 
meeting the needs of near markets ajnd as suf¬ 
fering less competition from the West and 
North than the strictly Winter varieties. The 
chances for the fruit grower are claimed now 
to be better in the East than the West. We 
have cheaper land, lower taxes and more 
accessible markets. Scale does not appear to 
be as greatly feared as in former years, but 
Is yet regarded as a most serious obstacle to 
tree fruit culture. Some hfgbly successful 
growers still use crude petroleum, and claim 
it the best of all insecticides for tlie purpose. 
Others fijid plain kerosene useful when lightly 
sprayed on pear trees in late Summer as a 
check for the young brood. The users in 
both cases urge extreme care in the applica¬ 
tion of these powerful remedies. Scalecide 
and other soluble oils were largely used the 
past season, generally with excellent results 
as far as clearing infested trees from scale, 
but thought to be too quickly washed off by 
rain, so that re-infestation sometimes occurs 
the same season. A prominent grower flirtls 
Scalecide in tlie Fall, followed in Spring by 
boiled lime and sulphur, which is in addition 
a good fungicide, a judicious method of con¬ 
trolling the pest. Scale extermination is re¬ 
garded as impracticable, but growers feel they 
can keep the upper hand of it by careful use 
of the above remedies. 
The general sentiment is that the fruit 
grower is not always getting the full benefit 
of our present national “prosperity.” Every¬ 
thing lie buys costs more—transportation, 
storage and selling charges certainly have not 
lessened, while suitable labor has become 
scarce and very expansive. The hopeful fea¬ 
ture is that crops in some localities are 
often short of the local demand, and there 
is an increasing distaste among consumers for 
the quality of the showy and well-packed 
fruits sent in from distant localities. 
The mild Winter of 1905-6 promised well 
for fruit trees and plants, which generally 
came through in good shape; a favorable 
blooming season followed, but the expected 
yields were sadly shortened by rot, favored by 
the excessively rainy Summer. Cherries and 
peaches suffered most, only fractional local 
crops being marketed in many places. Late 
peaches were least harmed. Some good ones 
of the Iron Mountain variety, from Hunter¬ 
don County, readily sold for $3 the basket. 
There were few good pears. First-class cold 
storage Bartletts, from Mercer County, 
brought $6 to .$8 the barrel, the highest price 
of any fruit in our markets. Ivieffers were 
plentiful, but few were of good enough ap¬ 
pearance to realize fair prices. Best sales 
ran from $2.25 to $2.50 the barrel. 
Strawberries turned out fairly well. Some 
early bloomers were injured by frost, but 
quality and prices were generally satisfactory. 
New Home seems to be a failure in New Jersey, 
though it succeeds in some parts of Mary¬ 
land. William Belt gains in favor, and is 
being taken up by growers who discarded it 
a few years ago. President does not find 
favor with commercial growers, as it is too 
difficult to keep up a stock of plants. The 
standard varieties of the northern counties 
appear to be Success, Glen Mary and Gandy. 
Stevens Late Champion is liked in the south¬ 
ern counties. Cumberland is the most suc¬ 
cessful blackcap raspberry. Cuthbert and 
Miller are the inos*t reliable red varieties. 
Ward blackberry has redeemed the promises 
made for it two or three years ago. It turns 
out to be the most productive kind yet I 
planted in the State, hardy, good sized, of 
fine appearance and fair quality. It‘has sue- 
ceeded alike on light and heavy soils, and 
sells well in market. A good word was sai-I 
for Konoyer as a promising early kind of 
really good quality. Burbank’s new Phenom¬ 
enal berry turned out a failure, being tender 
and unproductive. 
The season of 1906 was on the whole fa¬ 
vorable for vegetables. The yields were gen- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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orally good and prices fair, but offset by ex¬ 
cessive cost for labor and forage! Sweet 
com was profitable everywhere, the prices 
ruling higher than usual throughout the sea¬ 
son. The Russian Malakhov variety, dis¬ 
tributed by the horticulturist of the State 
Experiment Station, produced ears ready for 
table in 62 days after planting. The quality 
is first class, but the ears are too small for 
market. There was considerable mildew on 
Lima beans, greatly reducing the yield in 
some places. Dry Bordeaux or lime and 
copper dust applied to the foliage while wet 
to some extent checked the trouble. Lima 
bean culture is quite an important industry 
near the large cities. Both dwarf and pole 
varieties are used, but the latter are most re¬ 
liable. Over a million poles will be set 
in Cape May Coupty the coming season. Po¬ 
tatoes were not especially profitable, as there 
were considerable losses from rot, and prices 
remained low, except with the first earlies. 
Irish Cobbler gains in favor as an early 
kind suited to intensive cultivation. Sweet 
potatoes rotted badly, and generally brought 
low prices. About all the muskmelons in 
South Jersey, no matter when planted, 
ripened together in a fortnight, causing a 
glut in tlie markets. Melon blight gave much 
trouble, and was only partially controlled by 
Bordeaux. Pickle growers had less difficulty 
with blight. I’eas, tomatoes and other can- 
ner’s vegetables brought better contract 
prices than heretofore. Some growers made 
a little money. Well cultivated asparagus 
was profitable and there was little rust. Cel¬ 
ery blighted considerably, but sold well on 
account of the destruction of the Michigan 
crop by the early freeze. 
There were some instructive papers—a 
cranberry man told of the uncertainties of 
Hie crop, the culture of which is only rec¬ 
ommended to well-to-do growers with specu¬ 
lative proclivities. The cranberry is so ex¬ 
acting and has so many enemies in insect 
life and climatic changes, that the production 
of a good crop, even under the most pains¬ 
taking care, is a veritable gamble. Neverthe¬ 
less cranberry growers generally have a suit- 
stantial look, and the output of this indis¬ 
pensable accompaniment to roast turkey this 
year will not be far from 1 , 200,000 bushels, 
from the three important districts of New 
Jersey, Cape Cod and Wisconsin, selling for 
ain average price of over $2.50 the bushel. 
The manager of an extensive cold storage 
plant gave interesting facts and figures con¬ 
cerning the fruits handled. They came from 
every country in the world. The prices re¬ 
alized by lucky growers that handled their 
fruit just right were most enticing, and cal¬ 
culated to throw a very rosy glamour over 
fruit production, but is must be remembered 
that a large pr 'portion of the patrons of 
cold storage fail to realize their expenses in 
the season’s clean-up. The storage and trans¬ 
portation companies and the commission man 
have a sure thing anyway. Their cnarges 
come first and are taken out of the sales 
account, the grower perforce contenting him¬ 
self with the remainder, which too often may 
be represented by a minus quantity. 
Points in Fntrrr Growing. —In pruning 
young apple trees do not cut back the 
limbs when it may be avoided if early bear¬ 
ing is desired. Fruit buds first form near the 
ends of (lie older branches, and multiply back 
in succeeding years. If cut back the new 
growth needs two or three seasons to gain 
sufficient maturity to form fruit spurs. Thin 
out branches where necessary and keep tree 
in shape without sacrificing leaders. French 
crab stock—the genuine imported ones—are 
less likely to be troubled with Woolly aphis 
and crown gall than western stocks. D.ni’i 
let your Kieffer pear trees bear heavily too 
young. Prune or thin fruits severely * until 
trees are seven years old. Must have good 
tops and roots to bear full crop without in¬ 
jury. 
There was a good illustrated lecture during 
the evening session of January -t by a 1 mem¬ 
ber of tlie Henry A. I)reer seed firm of Phila¬ 
delphia, on the possibilities or home and 
door-yard improvement by means of low-cost 
seeds and plants. Houses and yards “before 
and after” improvement, situated in every 
part of tlie Union, were shown in stereopticon 
views: Good music was given on another oc¬ 
casion by tlie Orpheus Club of Trenton, an 
excellently conducted organization of young 
people. Quite a number of new members were 
added to the roll, some residing in other 
States. With few exceptions all tne officers 
were re-elected for the ensuing year. The 
retiring treasurer. I. ,T. Blackwell, one of the 
few surviving charter members, received an 
affecting tribute for his long and faithful 
service. w. v. p 
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