388 State Horticiilfnral Society. 



Golden Russet and Fulton shriveled ; the Roman Stem became mealy and 

 lost flavor ; Sheriff and Walbridge discolored so badly as to render them 

 unfit for show or market, and they deteriorated rapidly ; Fameuse re- 

 tain color, but many burst, and after a few days became mealy ; the 

 Yellow Bellflower went down suddenly. 



Moreover, the behavior of varieties having- a certain characteristic 

 in common was not always the same in respect to it. The Missouri Pip- 

 pin, a dark apple, faded in storage, but the Walbridge and Sheriff, also 

 dark apples, came out almost black ; nor did the lighter colored apples 

 fade more than did the dark red ones, for Grimes Golden and Yellow 

 Bellflower, both yellow apples, held their color unchanged, while Mis- 

 souri Pippin, a red apple, as has been said, faded. — American Fruit and 

 Vegetable Journal. 



THE PEACH IN MISSOURI. - 



(By Hon. N. F. Murray, President ^Missouri State Horticultural Society.) 



This, the most delicious of all fruits when properly grown, may, by 

 a careful selection of the most hardy varieties and a suitable location and 

 a thorough knowledge of the business, be grown successfully from Maine 

 to California and as far north as Central Iowa, yet there is not one-fourth 

 enough grown to supply the demand. In a few of the celebrated peach 

 centers, such as are found along the shore of Lake Michigan, the Chesa- 

 peake and Delaware peninsulas and some sections of Missouri, Arkansas, 

 Georgia, Texas and California, it may occur in a year of an abundant 

 crop and for lack- of proper methods of distribution, or want of due prep- 

 aration upon the part of growers to care for and handle the crop by ship- 

 ping only the finest, and canning and evaporating the balance, some may 

 go to waste and thus an impression goes abroad that there is an over- 

 production, which is not true. The fine looking peaches usually^ found in 

 the large city markets of the Mississippi Valley come from some of the 

 peach centers referred to and sell at prices that bar their use by the com- 

 mon people, while the smaller cities and towns and the great majority of 

 the farmers of the West seldom if ever have a sufficient supply of this 

 lucious, Hfe-giving fruit. There is no good reason why the millions of 

 people living in the Mississippi Valley should go with such a meagre sup- 

 ply or be dependent upon a few great peach centers a great 

 distance awav, the older of wdiicli are more or less affected with 

 the peach yellows, a disease as much dreaded and as fatal to 

 their trees as hog cholera is dreaded and is fatal to the swine 

 of the Western farmer. It often occurs that much of the fruit 



