298 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



agement, and horticulturists are generally hopeful for the future, 

 and next season more fruits will be planted than ever has been in any- 

 one year in the history of the county. 



KEPORTOFLAFAYETTE COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BY CHAS. TEUBNER, SECRETARY. 



This society organized at Leicington, Missouri, August 3, 1885, 

 with a membership of nine. 



Its officers are : President, Dr. W. A. Gordon; Vice-President, 

 N. G. Phetzing ; Secretary, Ohas. Teubner j Treasurer, Ceo. M. Catron. 



The constitution is paterned after the one published in the reports 

 of the State Horticultural Society. Meetings are held on the second 

 Tuesday in each month, during winter, in the court house, and in sum- 

 mer at the residences of the members. At each meeting new mem- 

 bers were added to the list, which now contains twenty-one, three of 

 them being ladies. Members in turn furnish an essay or lecture for 

 each meeting, the subject of which is then discussed. A blackboard 

 3x4 feet is used for illustrating the essays and lectures. Geo. F. Mait- 

 land gave an essay on strawberry culture in the last meeting, and 

 Chas. Teubner one on grape culture in the November meeting. At 

 the latter meeting an apple exhibit was held, in which twenty five va- 

 rieties were represented. Specimens of this exhibit were sent to the 

 Secretary of the State Horticultural Society, for the meeting of that 

 society at Warrensburg in December. The proceedings of our society 

 are published by the Lexington papers, so that non-members as well 

 as members may be benefited by our eflbrts. The apple crop in this 

 county was less than a half crop. Eary varieties, inferior in size, im- 

 perfect and wormy. Maiden's Blush good ; Jonathan, Huntsman, Rome 

 Beauty, Janeton, Willow Twig and Ben Davis, beins' the varieties 

 which did best, the latter especially. Young orchards had the most 

 fruit, some three-fourths crop. Old trees, as a rule, had but little fruit. 

 Most of the Janeton trees bore little or no fruit. Four Janeton trees 



