250 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



This great fruit section is on the plateau of the Ozark range* 

 Altitude, 1300 to 1500 feet; lay of land, more level than our rolling- 

 prairies of Holt county; the air and water pure; the country unex- 

 celled for health, unimproved land selling at $2 to $10 per acre, and 

 enough of it to make homes for 100,000 people in the very cream of the 

 fruit belt. 



We also spent a day at Springfield, a beautiful city of recent 

 rapid growth. Altitude 1500 feet, land rolling, water runs in every 

 direction from the city, it being the highest point of the Ozark range 

 It is quite a railroad and educational center, and people are gathering 

 into it from every point of the compass, till it now has a population 

 of nearly 50,000. While there we called to visit our daughter at Drury 

 college, where we were kindly received and introduced to the Faculty, 

 with whom we were well pleased and favorably impressed. President 

 Ingalls is a brother of ex-Senator Ingalls. The college grounds cover 

 thirty-five acres, which is nicely laid out and planted with nice shade 

 and evergreen trees. The buildings are ample; about 500 students 

 are in attendance. In conversation with a gentleman in Springfield, 

 formerly from New Jersey, he spoke in the highest terms of Drury col- 

 lege; said he had come there to educate his three children, and since 

 they had graduated he felt sure he had made no mistake. Long may 

 Drury live and prosper in her grand and noble work. May the time soon 

 come when Missouri shall have many more like institutions. Why not 

 have one at Oregon? — in this great Missouri valley, a mighty center 

 of population, wealth and commerce, backed up with at least $100,000 

 — one that will give a greater stimulus to education in this country and 

 shed its benign influence far and near; an institution that will live in 

 the memory of a grateful people for generations to come. 



N. F. Murray. 



OrjR MONSTER SHOW. 



[ In order that some of our new friends and members may understand the 

 nature and extent of our exhibit in 8t. Louis in 188S, I publish an old account taken 

 from the St Louis Star-Sayings of September 14, 1888 —Sec] 



You know when you are near the pomological display of the Mis- 

 souri State Horticultural Society at the Exposition long before you get 

 there, for the fragrance of apples permeates the atmosphere like an 

 orchard at ripening time. To an apple lover it is not unlike being in 

 Tartarus to walk through the large room filled with the fruit treasures 

 of the State, which are pretty enough and smell good enough to rouse 



