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FIFTH SESSION.— 9 A. M. Thursday. 



The house was called to order by the President, and prayer offered 

 by C. W. Murtfeldt. 



COMMISSIONER HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITS. 



Office of the Missouri Commissioners to the 



Pan-American and Charleston Exposition. 

 No. 9 Inwood Place, Buffalo, N. Y., June 4, 1901. 



Mr. L. a. Goodman^ Secretary State Horticultural Society, Nezv Haveu^ 



Missouri : 



My Dear Sir and Friend. — I regret very much that I cannot be 

 with you at the summer meeting. It was fully my intention to be there', 

 but on my arrival heie a few days ag'o bringng with me a car-load of 

 strawberries from Monett, Mo., which have just reached Buffalo, and 

 must be unloaded tomorrow morning, and as I wish to put about one 

 hundred cases on exhibit — of "24 qt. boxes to each case" — you wilt 

 know that I shall be very hard at work, as I want to have them passed 

 on at once. 



I will, however, thank you to remember me kindly to all of Missouri's 

 horticultural members and others who will attend your meeting. Tell 

 them that Missouri is in the forefront on apples here, and I hope to keep 

 her there throughout this exposition, and will also show what we can 

 do with other fruit. 



Hope to hear from you and other members of the State Horticultural 

 Society, and wishing for you a well attended meeting, I am, 



Yours very truly, 



CHAS. C. BELL, 

 Commissioner Horticultural Exhibits. 



N. B. — I have arranged to give all of the horticultural societies space 



in my fruit exhibits, and any fruit sent to me shall have my prompt and 



best attention, and any awards will go to the grower. 



BELL. 



LARGE BERRIES FROM MISSOURI. 



A whole car-load of strawberries — delicious strawberries, the kind 

 that is usually seen in pictures ; fine, large, rich, ripe, red, juicy straw- 

 berries, that make the mouth water — were placed on exhibition in the 



