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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
H. Griesa, Professor E. E. Faville and E. A. Popenoe. 
President Fred Wellhouse presided. A number of papers 
were read and there was full discussion, all of which will 
appear in the society’s annual report. 
The following officers were elected : Judge Fred Well- 
house, Topeka, president ; J. W. Robinson, Eldorado, vice- 
president ; William H. Barnes, Topeka, secretary ; Major F. 
Holsinger, Rosedale, treasurer. 
NEW JERSEY. 
The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the New Jersey Hor¬ 
ticultural Society was held in Trenton, January 4-5. Secre¬ 
tary Franklin Dye of the State Board of Agriculture, and 
Secretary Budd of the Horticultural Society, strongly urged 
the members to keep posted on the details of the fruit grow¬ 
ing business. The nurserymen are learning that it is neces¬ 
sary to keep posted on their business if they would succeed 
in the face of competition. Charles Black reported regarding 
the ravages of disease and insects during the year. Among 
those who delivered excellent addresses were A. Herrington 
of Madison, N. Butterbach of Oceanic, Hiram T. Jones of 
Elizabeth, H. W. Collingwood of New York, Director E. B. 
Voorhees of New Brunswick, Professor G. H. Powell of Del¬ 
aware, Professor Byron D. Halstead of New Brunswick, Pro¬ 
fessor F. L. Beal of Washington, D. C., and Professor John 
B. Smith, state entomologist. 
The following officers were elected : President, S. B. 
Ketchum of Bennington ; vice-president. David Baird of 
Baird ; secretary, H. I. Budd of Mt. Holly ; treasurer, 
Charles L. Jones of Newark ; executive committee, J. B. 
Ward, E. P. Beebe, D. A. Vanderveer, Ira J. Blackwell, J. B. 
Rogers. 
PENINSULA. 
The Peninsula Horticultural Society includes in its jurisdic¬ 
tion the whole of the Delaware and Chesapeake peninsula It 
held its twelfth annual session in Smyrna, Kent county, Dela¬ 
ware, January 11 to 13. The papers read were eminently 
practical, and the discussions were spirited and to the point, 
being confined to stating facts rather than arguing theories. 
The range of subjects was wide, taking in all classes of fruits 
and vegetables that are grown in this climate. The prevailing 
opinion was that peach growing is by no means a thing of the 
past in this territory, for there is a strong and wide-spread 
determination to battle against yellows and other diseases, and 
the insects that have been destructive. The monilia fungus 
has been a very serious trouble for several years, and thorough 
spraying with Bordeaux mixture is the remedy, but it must be 
generally, persistently and thoroughly applied to be an effect¬ 
ive preventive. The curculio is the worst insect foe, and a 
difficult one to manage. Jarring seems to be the only effective 
remedy and this will not come into general use for some time 
yet, because other troubles make the crop an uncertain one. 
With yellows and monilia under control, jarring for curculio 
would follow. 
Apple growing has been on the increase, and with this in¬ 
creased attention, varieties have been studied and it has been 
learned that several kinds of high market value succeed ad¬ 
mirably in this climate. 
Grape growing and small fruits attracted a good deal of at¬ 
tention. The society was fortunate in having present Walter 
F. Taber, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., who gave in detail the 
methods which have made him one of the most successful men 
in the East. Successful Delaware and Maryland men added 
from their own experience information of timely and practical 
value. 
The Maryland and Delaware experiment station men were 
on hand, and were loaded with good things which were freely 
distributed. 
A. N. Brown, chairman of the committee on transportation 
charged that the railroad companies discriminated against the 
Peninsula fruit growers. The marketing of fruit was discussed 
by J. W. Kerr, Denton, Md. Prof. G. Harold Powell made a 
plea for nature study in public schools. 
Officers were elected as follows : President, Captain R. S. 
Emory, Chestertown, Md.; vice-president, J. E. Carter, 
Smyrna, Del.; secretary and treasurer, Wesley Webb, Dover, 
Del. Captain Emory is an extensive and successful pear 
grower. Mr. Carter is largely interested in grapes, and the 
secretary has served in the same capacity since the organiza¬ 
tion of the society. 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society held its fortieth an¬ 
nual session at Harrisburg, Jan. 18-19. Professor Van Deman, 
Parksley, Va., reported on nomenclature. Professor W. G. 
Johnson, state entomologist of Maryland recommended the 
adoption of the Maryland insect law. Cyrus G. Fox, George 
G. Stitzel and S. B. Heiges were appointed a committee on 
legislation. 
Among the addresses were: “Quince Culture,” W. B. K. 
Johnson, Allentown; “Improvement in Fruits and Flowers,” 
Thomas Meehan, Germantown ; “Nature Study in Schools,” 
Frank M. Bartram, Londongrove ; “ Marketing of Fruit,” A. 
N. Brown, Wyoming, Del.; “Legislation for Horticulture,” 
William T. Creassey, Catawassa. The next meeting will be in 
Pittsburg. 
The following officers were elected : President, S. B. 
Heiges, York ; vice-presidents, Howard A. Chase, Philadel¬ 
phia ; Calvin Cooper, Bird-in-Hand ; Gabriel Heister, Harris¬ 
burg ; recording secretary, E. B. Engle, Waynesboro ; corres¬ 
ponding secretary, William P. Brinton, Christiana ; treasurer, 
Samuel C. Moon, Morrisville. 
RHODE ISLAND. 
The Rhode Island Horticultural Society met in Providence, 
Jan. 18. President Levi W. Russell presided and gave a sum¬ 
mary of the society’s exhibitions during 1898. 
The following officers were elected ; President, Joseph E. 
C. Farnham ; vice presidents, Col. R. H. I. Goddard, Hon. 
Robert C. Taft, Edwin H. Burlingame ; secretary and treasurer, 
Charles W. Smith ; librarian, Christopher R. Drowne ; Botanist, 
W. W. Bailey ; board of trustees, Silas H. Manchester, E. I. 
Nickerson, J. G. Massie, J. D. Fitts, H. R. Teel. 
NEBRASKA. 
The thirtieth annual meeting of the Nebraska Horticultural 
Society was held at Lincoln, Jan. 10-12. 
C. S. Harrison read a paper on “Parks and Forests; ” E. F. 
Stephens, Crete, “Irrigation;” “Keeping Qualities of Ap¬ 
ples,” Peter Younger, Jr., Geneva. 
In order to meet the expense of secretary sending out re¬ 
ports, etc., for the coming year, $300 of premium money was 
donated by the members. No other western state gives so 
small an appropriation to its horticultural society as Nebraska, 
and few other societies are doing more good work. At Omaha 
