Category: Horticulture

I. J. PICKFORD, EAST LANSING. Thinning fruit on the tree is an important operation in the scientific management of orchards, and one that Michigan horticulturists should practice more extensively. We want to establish in the mind of the markets and in every consumer the idea that Michigan stands for quality. Let us assist nature in […]

Three years ago the Michigan State Horticultural Society introduced the plan of having the senior horticultural students at the Michigan Agricultural College contest for cash prizes of $60 in giving five-minute addresses at the annual meeting; also in judging and identifying some of the plates of fruit on exhibit at the same meeting. This has […]

H. A. SCHUYLER, ADRIAN. The application of business principles in any concern is limited to their practical value. It is doubtful if any one can afford to practice methods that are not of practical value. In locating for horticulture, several questions will appear. Can .one afford to sacrifice easy access to market for good soil, […]

H. F. MINERS, ST. JOSEPH. (First Prize Address.) During the last decade Michigan Horticulture has suffered a great many serious setbacks and large amonts of money have been lost through disease but to my mind Michigan grape growers have never had a more serious disease to contend with than the so-called “Red-Grape” or downy mildew. […]

MRS. PAUL ROSE, ELSERTA. Mr. President, Gentlemen and Ladies : Inasmuch as we are supposed to be it, I will show due respect to the gentlemen by addressing them first. When I read the program and saw that I was the only woman on the program, I wondered who the program committee had a grudge […]

I. J. WOODIN, OWOSSO. (Second Prize Address.) Mr. Chairman, Ladies and. Gentlemen : It is my purpose this morning, to give you a brief discussion of the Sulzer Apple Bill recently passed by Congress. There are few growers who thoroughly understand the requirements of this bill as to the packing, grading, and branding of apples. […]

L. M. HUTCHINS, FENNVILLE. (Third Prize Address.) The place of cover crops in soil improvement has long been recognized. The immense importance of the legumes in this connection is of more recent development. The legumes themselves, that is the individual vetch, clover and alfalfa plants are not in themselves so superior to other cover crops. […]

G. F. LEONARD, HART. In a consideration of the three kinds of apple trees, viz., the standard or common variety and the two kinds of dwarfs, Paradise and Doucin ; I will discuss at some length the dwarfs as compared with the standards. The question of growing dwarf apples in the commercial orchard is one […]

T. F. BAKER, GRAND HAVEN. The top working of orchard trees is becoming more widely practiced by up-to-date scientific orchardists every year. Many orchards, especially those planted before the era of scientific horticulture in Michigan, are found unsuitable to the climate and other environmental conditions about them. To take out these old orchards and rejuvenate […]

L. C. CAREY, CHARLEVOIX. Shall the box supplant the barrel as the standard apple package? This question has confronted the eastern apple growers almost continuously since western apples in boxes began to compete with eastern barrel-packed apples some fifteen years ago. It has nettled the easterner to see a bushel box of Washington apples sell […]