78 ■ State Horticultural Society. 



Mr. Goodman : The peach does not need the stem with it. It is 

 not Hke the apple. You may cut the stem off with it, but it will come off" 

 anyway. All you need to be careful about is not to break the skin any- 

 way. That's all. 



W. A. Gardner : I would suggest the California box for shipping 

 peaches in. You can wrap them and put them in these boxes and they 

 can be carried without the slightest injury. 



Mr. Murray. — We use the one-third bushel boxes. You can pack 

 them in tight enough so they won't shake. 



Mr. Nelson, Sr. — What little experience I have had, I like the 4 or 

 6-basket crates. The same as is used for shipping tomatoes. Wrap the 

 fruit in paper and it will go through all right. 



W. A. Gardner. — I don't suppose it makes any difference what kind 

 of a box you use, so the fruit is w^ell wrapped and put in w^ell. 



Remarks from Mr. Goodman urging a good attendance at the meet- 

 ing in Buffalo this fall, as representatives from nearly all the European 

 countries will be there. Said he would like to have a good delegation 

 go from the Missouri Horticultural Society. 



Mr. Murtfeldt. — I would Hke to have about five minutes here. I 

 would like to put in just a word or two. Now my friends, if you can't 

 see it, I will tell you that I am a very old man, and cannot meet with you 

 very often after this. I congratulate myself on being a member of this 

 meeting. Where I was born (in Germany) before it became an empire, 

 we lived on the border line of Prussia, and they have salt mines over 

 there, and they charge their own people more for their salt than others. 

 And there was a difference in the salt, too. So much so, that the sub- 

 jects would go across the line to buy their salt. They were in danger 

 every time of being shut in, but they would risk it. Now I want to say 

 a word about our own apples. I am acquainted more with them than 

 anything else. Commission men of St. Louis often meet. I once went 

 to them and asked for Missouri apples. They did not have a one. Have 

 you the New York apples? Oh, yes, sir. I asked them if they had no 

 Missouri Ben Davis and they told me that they could not get them. 

 Now, why is it we cannot buy our own apples in our own State? I 

 think we should see to it that we can. 



Your Committee on Fruits respectfully submit the following report : 



The show of fruit, though by no means large, was exceedingly fine. 



In the matter of strawberries there was not a single box shown but was 



worthy of attention and consideration. These exhibits are object lessons, 



and are of the highest importance to the horticulturist in determining- 



