250 TRANSACTIONS OF THE HORTICULTURAL 



There is one kind of our choicest fruits, namely, the strawberry, 

 that must be used or sold while fresh. It is not good canned, and is 

 worthless evaporated. Therefore we say dispose of it as soon after 

 ripening as possible. Every other fruit grown in this latitude is 

 emphatically best evaporated. What is better than the toothsome, 

 delicious, and ever grateful apple as it is now prepared by evapora- 

 tion y Also the peach, the raspberry, and the cherry. What more 

 delicious pie than that made from the dried or evaporated rasp- 

 berry? No way can the flavor of any fruit be preserved as well as 

 as by evaporation. Never does such fruit go begging for a remu- 

 nerative market. In no Avay does fruit give the general satisfaction 

 to the consuming public that it does put up in this way. I am more 

 and more convinced after another year's trial, that every man that 

 grows fruit to any extent should be master of the situation, I mean, 

 he should control the market (his market in a sense), and this only 

 can be done by drying and evaporation. 



Not so with canning. Experience has proven that the canning 

 of fruits requires much skill and a large outlay of capital, which is 

 not always expedient for the moderate producer. But every man 

 that grows fruit for the market can and should prepare all surplus 

 fruit as indicated. 



I have during the last month made a trip through Colorado. 

 New Mexico and Arizona, and I assure you my wonder ceased as to 

 what became of the vast amount of canned and dried fruits. Mil- 

 lions of cans and pounds go into these Territories, saying nothing of 

 the others. In Tucson I treated myself to a can of raspberries at 

 sixty cents, and in this I found at least four parts water to two parts 

 berries and the can thrown in. 



When you buy evaporated fruit of any kind you know what 

 you are buying, and this you never know when you buy canned 

 goods. The demand more than keeps pace with the production. 

 Europe and other countries are reaching out to us their hands and 

 money, and will, for years to come, take every pound of our surplus 

 evaporated fruits. I would say then, to all growers, dispose of what 

 you can while fresh at paying prices, and the rest or surplus evapo- 

 rate, and you are then practically masters of the situation. 



THE FUTURE OF HORTICULTURE. 



BY DE. H. SCHR(EDER. BLOOMINGTON. 



Mr. President and Members of this Sociefi/: 



I was really flattered when invited by your noble Society for my 

 thoughts on the future of horticulture. It seems to me you want a 

 prophet, and since we lost our dear friend. Professor Tice, you have 

 elected me, poor old fellow, for Tice's successor. T know well that 

 a prophet should be an old man, with gray hair and a long white 

 beard, and if I want to keep up decorum I must stop shaving now. 



