262 3Iissis8ip2^i Valley Horticullural Society. 



J. L. BUDD, Secretary Iowa State Horticultural Society. 



M. W. PHILLIPS, Oxford, Mississippi. 



E. W. FURNAS, President Nebraska State Horticultural Society. 



D. H. WHEELER, Secretary Nebraska State Horticultural Society. 

 J. M. MORTON, Secretary Tennessee State Horticultural Society. 



E. GALE, President Kansas State Horticultural Society. 



G. C. BRACKETT, Secretary Kansas State Horticultural Society. 



H. \V. L. LEWIS, PresidentGulf States Fruit Growers' Association (Miss.) 



S. M. WIGGINS, Secretary Gulf States Fruit Growers' Association. (La.) 



J. T. GRIMES, President Minnesota State Horticultural Society. 



J. DECKER, Secretary Kentucky State Horticultural Society. 



A. WHITTAKER, President Texas States Horticultural Society. 



E. N. FIELDING, Secretary Texas State Horticultural Society. 



J. A. WARDER, President Ohio State Horticultural Society. 



On April 13, the committee met in St. Louis, and organized by electing 

 Parker Earle, of Illinois, Chairman, and S. M. Tracy, of Missouri, Secretary. 

 The details of the proposed organization and of the exhibition were consid- 

 ered at some length; regulations were adopted, and a premium list was ar- 

 ranged aggregating, $2,675, which was divided as follows: Apples, $'600 ;. 

 pears, $300; peaches and plums, $300; grapes, $295; miscellaneous—sweep- 

 stakes, etc., $1,120. 



The exhibition was held on September 7, 8 and 9, in the Merchants' Ex- 

 change, and although the attendance of visitors was small the exhibit was, 

 with the exception of the one made in Philadelphia during the Centennial, 

 the largest ever made in America. Something over eight thousand plates of 

 fruit were shown, coming fr(Mn nineteen difterent States. One thousand and 

 thirty-eight entries were made by one hundred and thirty-two exhibitors. 



In number of plates exhibited Missouri ranked lirst, Michigan second, Ill- 

 inois third, and New York fourtli. In apples there were four hundred and 

 twenty-three entries; in pears, two hundred and eighty-nine; in peaches, 

 eighty-eight; in grapes, one hundred and sixty; and in the miscellaneous 

 class, seventy-eight. The tables were so arranged that competing exhibits 

 were placed together, and each plate had a label giving the name of the va- 

 riety, and the name and address of the grower. 



On Wednesday, September 8, a meeting of horticulturists was called in the 

 parlor of the Laclede Hotel, and a permanent organization effected by the 

 adoption of a constitution and the election of the following othcers: 



Prexident — Parker Earle, of Cobden, Illinois. 



First Vice President— Ex-Gov. R. W. Furnas, of Brownville, Nebraska. 



Serrrtary — S. M. Tracy, of Columbia, Missouri. 



Trcdsarer — H. G. McPike, of Alton, Illinois. 



Arrangements for future meetings were left with the E.tecutive Com- 

 mittee. 

 The second annual meeting of the Society was held in Cincimiati, Ohio, on 



