10 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



we possess that is great and good. Such an exhibit will cost time, work and 

 money, but if properly done will return to our people ten-fold what it will cost, 

 and send our State along the great highway to wealth and prosperity, and win 

 from the world the welcome verdict, that of all the State exhibits at the great 

 Columbian Exposition, Missouri has the greatest and the best. 



N. F. Murray, Oregon, Mo. 



After the rendering of a beautiful selection of music by the 

 chorus — "Flovy softly, sweet breezes, from over the vale" — a talk was 

 given by Prof. J. C. Dufifey on " Injurious Fungi." 



The black-rot, scab, bitter-rot, may all be prevented by the use of 

 the Bordeaux mixture. Later in the season add Paris green for the 

 codlin moth. Be careful with the use of arsenic on the peach-trees. 

 It burns the foliage easily. A very weak solution must be used. 



There are many edible fungi which are often supposed to be poi- 

 sonous. Toad stools are poisonous, but most all the mushrooms are 

 edible; even the common "puff-ball" is edible while fresh and youngs 

 gather and fry like beef-steak. We may eat almost any of them with 

 impunity. 



Question — Are we to understand that there is no use applying the 

 fungicide after the scab appears ? 



Answer — The Bordeaux mixture is a preventive, and not a cure. 

 It will only prevent a further spread, but not cure that already on the 

 fruit. 



Prof. Duffey has eaten all varieties, and finds that they contain 

 more nutriment than fish and nearly as much as beef-steak. One variety 

 ( Henderson's) is superior, and he thinks they should be grown much 

 more extensively. 



Question — What causes twig blight ? 



A. Nelson thinks it is caused by a beetle boring into the twig. 



Prof. Duffey : Bordeaux mixture is a preventive. 



THE ROSE. 



[A paper read at Hautsvill?, Mo., at Faroier e' Institute.] 



Who first named the flowers? Who gave them, not their Latin titles, but the 

 old, familiar, poetic, rustic ones that run so curiously alike in all the diflerent 

 tongues? Who was it first called the lilie? of ttie valley the " Madona'a tears ?"^ 

 Wko first called the rich red clusters of the oleander " St. Joseph's nosegay? " 

 Who first called the hyacinth th>? plmt of sadness, and the starry passifiora the 

 "Passion of Christ?" Who first named them in the old forgotten days? These 

 sweet and simple names are known the world over, or at least whereever Euro- 

 pean languages are spoken. The German maiden in her pine woods, the Tuscan 

 in her vineyards, the Spanish child amid her forests, the farm girl in the purple 

 English meadows, and the meek-eyed peasant girl driving her milch cow through 

 the sunny fields of France— all these gathering flower or blossom from the wayside 

 or garden wall, give these flowers the same name with the same pathetic sweet- 

 ness. Who gave these flowers their names filled with such sweet meanings ? 



