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assorting the exhibit, and will soon begin to put It up. I shall endeavor to bring with me 

 a plat of the hall. "We shall be glad to place In cold storage anything that will be consigned 

 to us for that exhibit. I shall undertake to do everything In my power to make the exhibit 

 worthy of the horticultural Interest of the State of Missouri. 



Hope to see you in Ilarrlsonville, when I can better explain, 



Yours truly, 



Frank Gaiennie, 



General Manager. 



As you will see, therefore, we will take charge for this Society of 

 the exhibit to be made in St. Louis, and from the prospects of the fruit 

 crop now before us, we can have a display that will be worthy of our 

 State and Society. 



My plan would be much the same as that of 1888, where each 

 county made its display distinct, and thus got credit for all done, aad 

 the State took credit for it all. By this plan every county will get 

 credit for everything sent from that county, and it will appear in its 

 display. The rooms offered by the Exposition are the most beautiful 

 rooms in the building, and we can make a very tine show there. Other 

 side rooms will be supplied if more room is needed. 



It would be well, as I suggested to Mr. Gaiennie, that we arrange 

 with some cold storage company in St. Louis to care for our earlier 

 fruits, and thus have a complete fruit display. I think that we can 

 arrange with the express companies to carry fruit at half rates at least 

 for this show, and that will be much help to us. Plans will be concluded 

 by the Executive Committee, or at least furthered, at this meeting, in 

 consultation with Mr. Gaiennie, which the Society will no doubt ap- 

 prove. , 



Spraying is such an important matter in our work now, and one in 

 which there is so much uncertainty, that it is an appropriate subject 

 to take up at any time. There can be no question but that, if th© 

 proper spray is used, in the proper season, of the proper strength, and 

 applied in the proper manner and in the proper way, that good results 

 will follow. Another thing is true, and that is that this spraying must 

 be done each and every year, with just as much care and regularity as 

 is the cultivation and care of the orchard itself. As well may we 

 expect that one Y>lowing of an old neglected orchard would be a pana- 

 cea for our orchards, as to expect that one spraying would accomplish 

 the results we so much wish. Those who have tested it most and 

 longest say that the best results begin to show only after two or three, 

 or even four, years' systematic spraying — just as the orchardist says 

 that the best results come from three or four years of thorough calti- 



