INDIANA nOKTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 371 



MORKmG SESSIOK 



Friday, December 6, 9 A. M. 



Mr. Hobbs: Mr. Burton wishes to make a statement. 



Mr. Burton: I wisli to speak of the matter of an exhibition of our 

 fruits at the St. Louis Exposition. Our western brothers are doing won- 

 derful things in fruit growing, in apple gTowing. and we fully believe 

 they can not beat us, and we do not want to stand idly by and make no 

 show at this exhibition. I believe we can make the finest display of 

 the most popular apples in the United States— Jonathan, AVinesap and 

 Rome Beauty; and we can exhibit quite a number of varieties. I want 

 to suggest that we ought to prepare for this early next season, and take 

 special pains and make a thorough canvass. Perhaps we should have 

 a committee of ninety-two to look after this business, one from each 

 county. I would like to hear from other members on this. 



Ml". Garretson: I think he has spoken to the point, and will work 

 my best in my section. 



Mr. Burton: The Secretary should be chairman of this committee 

 and make all arrangements for us and provide for apples to go in cold 

 storage as soon as they are ripe enough. 



Mr. Flick: I approve of the suggestion to begin in time so as to be 

 ready to gather up the fruit and put ia cold storage. I think we can, 

 as he said, make a very creditable show of apples from Indiana, not only 

 the varieties he i^entioned but others, and think it proper and right to 

 do so. Our State needs to be more thoroughly advertised as an apple 

 growing region. I believe that we can grow as good and perhaps better 

 apples than either Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, or any other western State, 

 and here is the best and perhaps the only opportunity we will have for 

 many years to make it known, 



Mr. Henby: I heartily endorse the proposition, that we are going to 

 have something to do in an undertaking of that kind. Remember we 

 must run up against Missouri, and she is going to put her best foot 

 foremost. I believe she has the best orchards of apples of any State. 



Professor Troop: I was at the Pan-American Exposition in Septem- 

 ber, and am confident if we had had our exhibit that we had at the 

 State Fair this year, set down there just as it was at the State Fair, 

 we could have equaled anything there was on exhibition there at that 

 time. A good deal of the fruit, a good many apples on exhibition, when 

 I was there, were cold storage apples. New York is an apple growing 



