Report of the Iowa State Horticultural Society Volume 39; Containing the Proceedings of the Annual Session, Also Transactions of the Southeastern, Northeasten, Northwestern and Southwestern Horticultural Societies (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...duty which has characterized the past. In conclusion, I thank you for the honor of being made your presiding ofiicer for the last two years. Your uniform kindness and courtesy have endeared you to me, and strengthened the ties of friendship, and today I look into your kindly faces, and take new courage, and receive new inspiration. With fraternal greeting to all our members, and with a cordial welcome to the good. people of Lone Tree, and all other visitors, I now formally declare this, the thirty-fifth session of our society, open for business. The spring of 1904 opened with unusual bright prospects for the fruit grower, with the heaviest bloom for years. And we were not wholly disappointed. According to the reports of the different directors, strawberries were a full crop, raspberries about T5 per cent of a crop, gooseberries- and currants a full crop. Plums: Some orchards gave a full crop of Isuch varieties as Abundance, Burbank, etc. Others a fair crop of native varieties. The plums that matured in our part of the state were of excellent quality. Cherries were somewhat like the plum crop. Early Richmond taking the lead, with a few of the later varieties, but in many orchards there were scarcely enough for the birds. Grapes were reported at from 75 to 100 per cent of a crop of extra fine fruit. Apples: Of the early varieties, there was about 90 per cent of a crop reported, of good quality, fair size and fine appearance. The fall apples, 75 per cent of good to excellent. Winter about 50 per cent of kno-tty, scrubby, wormy and worthless apples. Only Jonathan and Ben Davis giving satisfactory returns in the southeastern part of the district, with perhaps Northwestern Greening, and many others. _ In the northern part of our district peaches reported fro...