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NEW YORK HOETIOUIiTUEAI SOOIETTi 
The leading feature of the February ex¬ 
hibition was the many beautiful Boses which 
covered the tables and fiUed the air with 
the breath of June. John Henderson s col¬ 
lection, comprising all the leading and sev¬ 
eral new varieties, all in excellent specimens, 
was awarded the first prize. A dozen Bon 
Silene from A. McKellar, Catherine Mermet 
from A. S. Burns, and a large bunch of La to 
France from Eugene Dailledauze were as 
perfect as we ever saw these varieties, 
were awarded first prizes. 
Orchids came next in prominence. W. 
C. Wilson exhibited Dendrobhim tVardianiiw 
Phakenopsis amabilis and grandiflova, Celo- 
gyne cristata, Lmlia autwnnalis, Oncydium 
tigrinum, Cypripedmm longifollwn, and sev¬ 
eral varieties of Catleya Trianw. Hallock 
& Thorpe showed Dendrobiiini Wardianum, 
Lycaste Skinneri and Cypripedium Harris- 
sianum. Charles E. Parnell showed a large 
bunch of flowers of Hendrobium amabile. 
Henry .Sackersdorf exhibited a highly or¬ 
namental and tastefully arranged stand con¬ 
sisting of a straight stem about three feet 
high and covered with Smilax; on the top 
was fastened a tin vessel with water, hidden 
from view. In this were arranged long, 
blooming branches of Acacia pubesccns 
gracefully drooping all around somewhat in 
the shape of an open umbrella. Another 
stand similarly arranged w'ith Euphorbia 
jacquinifiora was exhibited by William Ban 
iels who showed also some unusually well 
grown Poinsettias. 
Hallock & Thorpe were as usual strong in 
Carnations and Geraniums, of both of which 
they showed large and remarkably fine col¬ 
lections. 
A new seedling Caraation “ Dougla.ston' 
which attracted much attention, and was 
awarded a first prize, was exhibited by Al¬ 
bert Benz. The flower is \ery large, perfect 
shaped, of light buff color and carmine 
stripied. The same exhibitor showed also 
excellent bunches of Violets, Lily of the Val 
ley and a new seedling Calendula, very 
large, deep orange knd highly promising. 
Siebrecht & Wadley’s exhibit eonsisted 
of several mi.scellaneous collections, very 
fine Primulas, Hyacinths, Tulips, Orchids 
and others. 
A collection of seedling Amai-yllis exhibit¬ 
ed by John A. Gardiner was one of the most 
meritorious features of the exhibition and 
deserves special mention. 
The display of vegetables consisted 
TWaTITUIE farmers- OLTJB. 
AjIERIOANIHSTIT are held every 
The meetings o each month 
second and f?"'* 34 cooper Union, New 
at 1:30 P. 1“ -pj-ing’held February 10th, 
York. At the ^ y,e following ex- 
Mr. Peter Henderson lead tno 
cellent paper: „ „. x,., may be pkoeit- 
and veoetables. 
of 
Mushrooms, Cauliflowers and Cucumbers, 
A fdate of Anjou Pears, grown in 1881, still 
in perfect condition. 
During the business meeting William Ben¬ 
nett recommended as an infallible remedy 
-for mildew in greenhouses, to paint the hot 
water or steam pipes with a mixtiu c of siil 
phur and linseed oil. Sulphur alone is fre¬ 
quently found to injure the foliage of the 
plants, but the addition of the oil is said to 
mitigate this effect. 
The first spring exhibition will be held on 
Tuesday, Alarch 8 d, from 2 to r, |,. in 
Horticultural Hall, 26 & 28 West 28th street. 
Intending exhibitors may obtain premium 
schedules by addressing tlie secretary, y 
Alurkland, 18 Cortlandt street, New York 
11.1s »bjoot 
ledi^c that there are hundreds of faimeis 
eaU; an parts of the country each season 
whostrike outfromthe old stereotyped crops 
of the farm into growing a few acres of e her 
vegetables or fruits, and in many cases bot 
and not a few have abandoned the faim fo 
arrowing farm crops and have devoted then- 
whole energies to the growing of fruits and 
vegetables. . 
Last week I had a visit from a man living 
in the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y., who 
came to thank me for advice given him a 
dozen years ago in this matter, when he 
timidly made the attempt of growing half an 
acre of his fifty acre farm in vegetables for 
a village market. His venture was so satis¬ 
factory that he gradually increased liis area, 
so that he has now thirty acres used mostly 
in gi’ow'ing early Cabbages for the Rochester 
market. He further informed me that his 
net profits from the Cabbage garden were 
last year $0,500, or a little over $200 per 
acre, and that it was not a very good year 
for Cabbages at that. We market gardeners 
in the vicinity of New York would not be con¬ 
tent with a profit of $200 per acre on our 
high priced land, but it would be more than 
satisfactory to most farmers. 
Another marked case where a farmer in 
the vicinity of Baltimore has been cultivat¬ 
ing for six years past over one hundred acres 
in Hackensack Melons, which are sold in 
New York at prices that give him over 
•$5,000 a year profit from the same land that 
in Coi-n or Wheat did not net him one-tenth 
of that sum. 
In anothei instance that came under my 
personal observation, a college bred man of 
twenty-eight, failing in health from office 
work, purchased a farm off sixty aei-es at 
Northport, L.I. three years ago. The second 
year he tried a few acres in vegetables and 
small fruits, which he found sale for in the 
village of Noi-thpoi-t at most satisfactory 
on his farm in the summer of 
.$ 8 .., and I must say that for a man who had 
obtained Ins knowledge almost entire from 
complete success.^ 'I'wm Kry''h'o ' 7 ’'.'!' 
be buckled up his sleeves and 
iTT /r"" ^ little doubt 
tliat he will yearly increase his -irer 
vegetables and fruits, and that hi; C l i:; 
b-.ndreds more of those on I,eng Islam 
be eventually converted into 
•leofor vegetables and small fruits. 
The now famous Celei y growers of if 1 
''■<> 0 , Mich., were less , ,,,,7 , '’'^l^'^l■'|'•na- 
.. •••:•"> •>’ 
moth fortunes, ifw,. ... ! . ""'-'b- 
vigorous health and placid mind 
paragraph from the Philadelphia j. 
last week I find the following, in 
Celery growing in Kalamazoo,’Mich°. e ““ I® 
was a dozen years ago a swamp ig'‘J^l>at 
vast Celery field, beside which a h 
acre lot is but a garden. The shipn- *'®(1 
sou begins in J uly, increases untfl a 
days, then gradually decreases unn'*'’''' 
crop is disposed of in the spring, pif/ i^l*® 
daily are now being sent out, and th ^ 
of 188^1 will reach five thousand T"'’ 
Twenty thousand stalks are raised un 
acre of ground.” This is a very mod 
estimate of the number of plants per **'^**' 
which is in reality probably one half 
as we grow nearly thirty thousand plant***^'’’ 
an acre, which averages two cents per * 
wholesale, or six hundred dollars per 
The 5,000 tons shipped from Kalamaz'' 
bring probably $150,000 annually. 
Another case in point which has been com 
muuicated to me by a friend is as follows" 
His farm adjoined a village of two thousand 
inhabitants. One year when he had a large 
surplus of Strawberries and Sweet Corn 
which he had grown for his own family, and 
having many applications for the fmit and 
the Corn by the village people, he conceived 
the idea of employing a man with a cart to 
supply this unexpected demand in the vil¬ 
lage. These products were sold at such 
prices as paid a clear profit of .$175 per acre, 
which was about five times as much as the 
average value of the farm crops. In addition, 
the sale of the Strawberries created a lai-ge 
demand for cream which was equally profit¬ 
able. No doubt this example could be fol¬ 
lowed in the neighboi-hood of nearly every 
village in the country. 
It is not advised, however, thatany farmer 
should in the beginning embark largely in 
growing vegetables and fruits. Nearly all 
who have been most successful have, like 
my Rochester friend, started with a small 
patch, increasing the area as their means and 
the demand for the products justified. 
Those who can most advantageously use 
their farms for the culture of fruits or vege¬ 
tables are such as are located near towns or 
hotels, and largo summer boarding-houses. 
As the fruits and vegetables usually fu' 
nished to such places ai-e shipped from tie 
large cities after passing through the h.m * 
of commission men, who of course nm®^ 
take their profit, usually they ***’*'''® 1” ' 
stale and battered condition, and 
times more to tho consumer than the 
grower gets. As a matter of fact J'*'® 
tables and fruits usually served at fits c 
hotels and fashionable summer 
hundred miles ho” ‘ 
will 
market gar- 
tlio culture of 
them 
houses fifty hr 
and fci" 
York, whore tho guests pay throe 
dollars a day, aro no hotter than thoso^ 
found in tho choapost restaurants 1 '^^ 
large cities, though they have J^rroid 
priotors throe times as much. I" '' 
majority of casos those crops could >c 
profitably in tho vioinity and soivei 
from tho ground daily- , fids 
in a jiapor necessarily as ',iit t® 
must be, detail of oporations ca^^ 
given, nor is it necessary, for all j,i 
he said on those sulijoots has boon 
the, bocdcH on fruits and vogotahlos^ iciuli”!'' 
published. I will merely g'voW 
instructions of tho best conditloi'®> jfoiii 
do this I will take tlio liberty to 
