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JOTIIAM P. ALLDS.Norwich, N. Y. 
ALBERT T. FANCHER_Salamanca, N. Y. 
S. P. FRANCHOT_Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
S. PERCY HOOKER.LeRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES.Canandaigua. N. Y. 
SANFORD TV. SMITH.Chatham. N. Y. 
WM. J. TULLY.Corning, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE.Syracuse. N. Y. 
BEN.T. M. WILCOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD.Utica, N. Y. 
FRANK M. BOYCE_East Schodack. N. Y. 
AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
MEETING. 
Part I. 
Another delightful meeting of the Amer¬ 
ican Pomological Society was held at the 
Jamestown Exposition the last week of Sep¬ 
tember. The weather was delightful and the 
sessions and the usual fruit shows were held 
in the court of the States Building, which 
is embowered with growing flowers and other 
ornamental plants, yet covered in the central 
portion. It was light, airy and a beautiful 
setting for the purposes of the meeting. The 
Hotel Elliott, selected for headquarters and 
the entertainment of the members, was very 
satisfactory to them, being a farmhouse with 
a temporary annex, near the Exposition and 
in the midst of truck gardens and oyster 
beds. Such delicious oysters, fresh from the 
water, are not often found. 
The meeting was called to order by Presi¬ 
dent L. A. Goodman, of Kansas City, Missouri, 
and with a goodly number present, the most 
of them being the old, tried and true, but 
some young and new members were warmly 
welcomed. There were addresses of welcome 
from President II. St. George Tucker, of the 
Exposition, and ex-president Samuel B. 
Woods, of the Virginia Horticultural Society, 
responded to by C. L. Watrous, of Iowa. 
Perhaps the most important subject dis¬ 
cussed was first introduced in the address of 
President Goodman, afterwards dwelt upon 
at length in that of A. N. McNiell, of Ot¬ 
tawa, Canada, and finally put before the 
meeting in a resolution from a special com¬ 
mittee, which was passed unanimously. The 
subject is that of the truthful labeling of 
each and every package of fruit put upon our 
markets. The dishonesty which is the more 
common practice of not labeling the barrels 
and boxes according to the grade of fruit 
actually put in them is the meanest thing in 
American horticulture, as many see it, and 
the effort in this caSe was to take steps to 
remedy the evil. In Canada, as Mr. McNiell 
fully explained, there has been a law in force 
for six years past, known as the Fruit Marks 
Act. He stated that it had been opposed at 
first by some growers and dealers, but now 
nearly all agree that it is very beneficial and 
favor it. It requires the truthful statement 
of the contents of the package by a brand or 
mark indicating the same, and a penalty 
which will be felt is imposed for violation 
of the law. The resolution at this meeting 
looked to the enactment by our Congress of 
a similar act. We surely need it, and we can 
get it if the people push for it. Not only 
will our dealers sell what they claim, and the 
consumers get what they pay for, but our 
fruit will be in better repute, and bring a 
better price abroad. The Canadians are now 
ahead of us in all these respects, and it is 
to our shame and loss. 
There was a paper from Prof. C. I. Lewis, 
of Oregon, that indirectly bore on this general 
subject of good and true fruit packing. It 
was entitled, “Features of Fruit Growing 
at Hood River,” and made it plain that the 
thorough methods of growing, thinning, grad¬ 
ing and packing fruit there paid immensely. 
There is no fraud allowed in the Hood River 
Association. No one can grade or pack his 
own fruit. It is all done by experts at a 
central warehouse at the railroad station, 
and cheaper as well as better than (he grower 
could do it himself with the facilities he 
might have or make at his own place. As 
proof of the benefits of the plan Prof. Lewis 
stated that this year the first grades of the 
best varieties of apples were bought through 
sealed bids at $3.50 per box of 50 pounds, 
f. o. b. at Hood River. This is $10.50 per bar¬ 
rel, which would make an eastern fruit grow¬ 
er fall from his fruit ladder, I fear, if it 
were offered him by a dealer. 
For many years there has been a work of 
the greatest importance in American pomology 
going on in a quiet way, and almost un¬ 
known, except to a very few. This is “The 
Breeding of Orchard Fruits for the Upper Mis¬ 
sissippi Valley,” by C. G. Patten, of Charles 
City, Iowa. Everyone who is at all familiar 
with our country and its fruits knows that 
there is great need of orchard fruits of good 
quality and hardy enough in tree to with¬ 
stand the Winters of Iowa and northward to 
Manitoba. Especially is this true of Win¬ 
ter apples, for the hardy Russian varieties 
are nearly all of them either early in ripen¬ 
ing or poor in quality, or both. It has been 
the chief aim of Mr. Patten for the past 30 
or 40 years to produce varieties of apples 
that are hardy in tree, good in quality and 
that will keep well in Winter, and he has 
made marked progress. One that is called 
Patten Greening is the most valuable so 
far, and is now a standard for planting even 
as far north as Minnesota. But this is only 
one of the first that he has produced by 
cross-breeding the hardy kinds with those of 
high quality, such as Jonathan and Grimes. 
At this meeting he showed a barrel of speci¬ 
mens of his cross-bred seedlings, some of 
which are of very superior qualities, but Mr. 
Patten considers all of them only steps in 
the direction in which he is progressing. He 
showed a number of crosses between the wild 
crab of the North, which is almost as hardy 
as a birch, and such apples we consider of 
first quality. In the address of Mr. Patten 
on this occasion he explained the steps by 
which lie hoped to attain much greater things. 
He deserves the gratitude of his countrymen 
for what he has already done, and their good 
cheer and assistance in the work before him, 
if he is spared to continue a life of useful¬ 
ness now quite well advanced. It is import¬ 
ant that he be assisted in the prosecution 
of this work of love and of momentous bene¬ 
fit to the whole people, especially those of the 
Upper Mississippi Valley. This matter was 
discussed and steps taken that we hope may 
lead to something tangible in this direction. 
W\ M. Scott, of the Bureau of Plant In¬ 
dustry, gave in detail a very clear statement 
of his experiments for “The Control of Brown 
Rot of the Peach,” which is one of the very 
serious troubles of the peach in many regions. 
He stated what is quite generally known, that 
the ordinary Bordeaux Mixture will injure 
the foliage of the peach and hence useless in 
the fight against this malady; but he stated 
what is almost unknown, that he has discov¬ 
ered at least one mixture that is not injur¬ 
ious to the peach foliage and yet effective in 
killing the germs of the brown rot. All peach 
growers in the affected regions should at once 
write to the Bureau of Plant Industry at 
Washington for full information on this sub¬ 
ject, and prepare for the fight against this 
disease next Summer. h. e. van deman. 
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H. wants to know if anyone ever heard of 
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