460 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



certain scale of points being desired, by which to decide. He found 

 Missouri could raise just as good apples as Michigan. ^'Our Ben Davis 

 grown on the 37th parallel, is much better than yours at the North. I 

 don't wonder that you despise this apple as it grows here. I think 

 some of our Southern varieties would become good keepers at the 

 North, The pear exhibit at New Orleans was poor. We have no gen- 

 uine winter pear in the West. I have learned that." Among other 

 lessons learned at New Orleans, Mr. Goodman said, was patience ; they 

 had to wait and wait, and were still waiting, at least for the premiums 

 promised. He also alluded sharply to the cold storage facilities prom- 

 ised by the management, which exhibitors never got, and he spoke of 

 many blunders and shortcomings there, going out of his way to arraign 

 the management with sarcastic bitterness, so much so, in fact, as to 

 bring Parker Earle, Chief of the Horticultural Department, at New 

 Orleans, promptly to his feet at the close of the paper. He defended 

 the management courteously and manfully. Said he, "I've listened 

 with satisfaci ion to the paper. It contains many good suggestions; 

 but some of the statements are based upon misconception. The cold 

 storage promised was fully provided, and it was the best on the con- 

 tinent. If my friend did not use it, that is no fault of the manage- 

 ment. There was no charge for cold storage. The exposition has 

 enough real faults to answer for without having matters that are un- 

 true imputed to it. As to the character of Horticultural Hall there, 

 everybody was surprised at its peculiar adaptation for the preservation 

 of the fruit. The oranges kept admirably; the apples remained in 

 perfect preservation for over four months." 



NOTES FROM AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



[From Rural New Yorker,] 



THE BEST STRAWBERRIES. — BY PARKER EARLE. 



" I consider Crescent best of all with me. I fail with almost all 

 other kinds. I use several kinds of fertilizers ; all seem to be success- 

 ful. I am now planting Sharpless as a companion almost exclusively." 

 Commissioner Colman : " Why is Crescent better than Wilson?" Mr.. 



