60 State Horticultural Society. 



Wade. — This is not practical. We use a fifteen per cent syrup and 

 this is better than most canners use. 



Irvine. — If we could get as fine goods as are sent out from Curtiss 

 Bros., of Rochester, X. Y., it would be a fine thing for Missouri. 



Goodman. — Fifteen per cent is not half heavy enough syrup. Fruit 

 put up in flint glass jars with a rich syrup is what is wanted in the cities. 



Wade. — Such would be handled entirely differently and under a 

 special label and price. 



HOW I GROW THE PEACH. 



W. F. Benson, Willow Springs, Mo. 



That I shall he able to offer any new thought or suggest any new 

 method relative to the growth of the queen of stone fruits I have not the 

 egotism to imagine; but when I remember that since the day Eve nestled 

 the firstborn of mankind to her bosom there has always been a beginner 

 in the lessons of life, one who has the A B C of knowledge to acquire, 

 I do not hesitate to offer for the study of the infantile membeiship of the 

 great family of Missouri fruit growers my method of growing the best 

 fruit the Creator has deemed it wise to give us — the peach. 



I consider successful peach growing easier than any other branch 

 of horticulture. A suitable location is the first requisite. In deter- 

 mining this two factors, climate and accessibility to market are so abso- 

 lutely essential it is hardly possible to say which should be first. We 

 can not make the climate, and — well, the same remark applies to the 

 market. An unfortunate condition at present is, that in general these 

 two prime essentials are so far apart. The best markets are our great 

 cities. New Jersey and Maryland orchardists find practically a home 

 market in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and the smaller cities of the 

 Atlantic coast for all they can produce, and Michigan's rapidly contract- 

 ing peach district is in close touch with Chicago, the best fruit market 

 west of the Appalachian range. Georgia, Missouri and Arkansas are 

 struggling with the disadvantages of long distance markets and burden- 



