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Just as 80011 as any particular locality gets its reputation for a 

 certain product, you will always have buyers to take your produce and 

 pay you a remunerative price for it. 



Howell county, with her thousands of acres of young peach and 

 apple orchards, will in a few years, no doubt, enjoy the best shipping 

 facilities and get the best prices for her orchard-products of any county 

 in the State, from the very consideration I have just referred to. 



Horticulture in Missouri, yet in its infancy or in its formative 

 period, and like the tiny plantlet, as it raises its tender stem from the 

 soil and unfolds its delicate leaves in succession, under the influence 

 of the sunshine and the gentle showers, until beneath its spreading 

 branches the weary travelers may rest and enjoy the lusciousness of 

 its falling fruit, so may Missouri's tree of horticulture, rooted in a 

 fertile and productive soil, expand and develop until its sturdy 

 branches shall drop their refreshing fruits at the feet of the hungry 

 millions in all the great cities of this nation and of the world. 



PurcliasiDg- Nursery Stock. 



By J. C. Evans, Harlem, Mo. 



Purchasing nursery stock at the present time requires more care 

 than it has done at any other time in the history of the country; not 

 that there are any more unreliable nurserymen now, nor that there are 

 any more unprincipled tree peddlers than formerly, but there are 

 various diseases and insect enemies attacking the orchards, nurseries 

 and vineyards of America that were not known a few years ago. The 

 oyster-shell bark-louse and the San Jose scale are abroad in the land^ 

 and are liable to be transplanted into our orchards at any time, and 

 once established, it is a very diflficult matter to get rid of them. 



It was thought for a long time that neither of these pests could 

 withstand the rigors of our winter climate, but instances prove plainly 

 the contrary. Of these pests we yet know but little, but we do know 

 and we are advised by scientists, that when a tree or plant is found to 

 be covered with either of them, that the best thing is to take it out 

 and burn it. It is, I believe, generally conceded that the San Jose 

 scale is the more fortnidable of the two enemies, but it is sufficient for 

 us to know that either of them will sap the life out of a tree or plant, 

 or an entire orchard, if allowed to get a start andlet alone. 



There are various remedies recommended for their destruction, 

 but until we have had some experience we are not prepared to say 

 which is best, or whether any are thoroughly reliable. 



