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ble to disseminate any new variety unless it possesses some decided 

 superiority over any known variety of its season. 



Very respectfully, 



W. C. FREEMAN. 

 Brookline Station, Mo. 



REPORT OF VERNON COUNTY HORTICTLTURAL SOCIETY. 



BY DR. E. R. MORERORD, SECRETARY, SCHELL CITY. 



At Home, Near Schell City, Mo., June 9, 1885. 



Z. A. Goodman^ Secretary State Horticultural Society^ Butler,^ Mo.:" 



Esteemed Friend : Enclose you this morning a communication 

 v/hich I intended to have bioueiht with myself to your meeting, but: 

 the long continued rains have made the pressure of farm work so great 

 that I can ill spare the time. I do not know what title to give it, as I, 

 like the old ambitious hen spreading out her wings in order to gather 

 all the possible chickens within reach, so I have struck out for ideas to 

 slap into my budget. 1 have another communication partially finished, 

 and if I can I shall try and get to you by mail before the close of the 

 session. This, the future of the fruit industry of Southwest Missouri- 

 Have no especial report, to make. Mr. Shepley has the figures for pros- 

 pects for fruit. Hoping you will have a good time generally, 



Yours, 



E. R. MORERORD. 



In the issue of the Lamar Democrat of the date of April 23, 1885, 

 I find the following paragraph : 



" P. C. Carr was in Lamar on Saturday, and he says the peaches 

 are not all killed on his place. He says that his last fall setting out of 

 fruit trees from the Ft. Scott nurserys are badly damaged, any many 

 of them winter-killed. He says he will deal with Fink & Son at home 

 hereafter." 



