266 3Iississippi Valley Horticultural Society. 



Best plate Goethe — Bush & Son and Meissner. 



Best plate Martha — A. Engleman. 



Best plate P>lvira — Bush & Son and Meissner. 



Best plate Wilder — B. H. Young, Louisville, Kentucky. 



Best plate Norton's Virginia — J. Rinderer, Augusta, Missouri. 



Best plate Cynthiana — H. Jaeger, Neosho, Missouri. 



Best plate Lady — G. W. Campbell, Delaware, Ohio. 



Best plate Amber — Rommel & Sobbe. 



Best bearing cane of new seedling for taljle and market, quality and productive- 

 ness to rule — T. S. Hubbard, Fredonia, New York — Prentiss. 



Best bearing cane of new seedling for wine, quality and productiveness to rule — 

 Rommel & Sobbe, Morrison, Missouri — Elvira Seedling No. 3. 

 The Committee on Grapes recommended a discretionary premium for collection 



of seedlings from Nicholas Grein, of Hermann, Missouri. 



SEMI-TROPICAL FRUIT.S. 



Best display — Gulf States Fruit Growers' Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. 



Best display California fruit — George C. Swan, San Diego, California. 



Best plate pomegranates — J. J. Colmant, Columbus, Mississippi. 



Best plate Mandarin oranges — A. S;iml)ola, New Orleans. 



Best plate shaddocks — S. M. Wiggins, New Orleans. 



Best plate lemons — George C. Swan. 



Best collection green-h(ju.se plants— First premium, H. Michel & Co., St. Louis; 



third premium, W. A. Syred, St. Louis. No second premium awarded. 

 Best specimen plant — Henry Michel & Co. 

 Best display cut flowers —Henry Michel &Co. 

 Best floral design — Henry Michel & Co. 

 Best display preserved (whole) fruit— St. Louis, L'on Mountain and Southern 



Railway. 



SWEEPSTAKES. 



Best collection of horticultural products by any State horticultural society — First 

 premium, Missouri \'alley Horticultural Society ; second premium, Michigan 

 Pomological Society ; third premium, Illinois Horticultural Society ; fourth 

 premium, Western New York Horticultural Society. 



