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Kiefifer pear holds its own well here in the West, and the peach needs 

 to be bred up to a hardier standard before many parts of the State 

 can be sure of a crop. 



As to insects, the best way to fight them seems to be settled down 

 to spraying. 



The Society and its work are prospering grandly, and thousands 



are becoming interested in fruitgrowing in the State on the cheap new 



lands to be had everywhere. 



L. A. Goodman. 



State Horticultural Society. 



Colman's Rural World. 



The thirty-seventh annual meeting of this Society was held in the 

 city of Trenton, the county seat of Grundy county, in Northwestern 

 Missouri, last week, and was well attended by as brainy a lot of men 

 engaged in one or more branches of horticultural industry as could 

 well be gotten together in any state in the Union. President J. 0. 

 Evans, Secretary L. A. Goodman, Vice-President l!^. F. Murray and 

 Treasurer A. Nelson were present and in their places, and regret was 

 expressed that the venerable Second Vice-President, Judge Samuel 

 Miller, was not there. Each of these gentlemen were unanimously re- 

 elected to the same position for the ensuing year. Under the experi- 

 enced chairmanship of Major Evans, the business of the meeting pro- 

 ceeded with remarkable smoothness, and so far as it was possible, the 

 program was followed to the letter. A few of the essayists were 

 not present, but in a majority of cases they had forwarded their papers 

 to the Secretary, and were read by him to the meeting. Eegret was 

 expressed by many that Mrs. Dugan, "May Myrtle" of the "Rural 

 World," was unable to attend on account of illness and the length of 

 the journey. 



Mr. E, Morrill of Benton Harbor, Mich., president of the Michigan 

 Horticultural Society, was present, as were also T. E. Goodrich of 

 Cobden, 111,, and S. J. Baldwin of Seneca, Kas., all active workers in 

 the horticultural field. Each took an active interest in the proceed- 

 ings, and freely engaged in discussing the many points raised by the 

 papers and in the debates. 



Many of the older members of the Society were also present with 

 valuable papers, and by their extensive experience and diversified 

 knowledge gave both dignity and character to the proceedings. Of 

 these were Hon. N. F. Murray, Z. T. Eussell, G. F. Espenlaub, A. Nel- 

 son, Stephen Blanchard, A. H. Gilkeson, C. C. Bell, Levi Chubbuck,. 

 S. W. Gilbert and Major Holsinger. These, with President Evans and 



