Winter Meeting. 263 



Missouri has maintained her charactei- as a great fniit state, being 

 iible to make snch a showing in an off year. 

 Very respectfully, 



Frank Holsinger^ Rosedale, Kan. 



Emil J. Baxter^ ISTauvoo, 111. 



John T, Stinson, Fayetteville, Ark. 



Prof. J. T. Stinson, of the Arkansas Experiment Station, Fayette- 

 ville, was nominated and unanimously elected a honorary member of 

 the Missouri State Horticultural Society. 



J. T. Stinson. — I thank you for this honor. I do not deserve it, 

 but I never received anything for which I was more thankful. 



REPORT O^ SMALL FRUITS. 

 By G. W. Hopkins, Springfield, Mo. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



I have been growing strawberries for twenty-eight years, but the 

 past season is the worst I have ever experienced. After the fruiting 

 season was over there was but little rain during the rest of the summer. 

 Only occasional showers and even these were local and often confined to 

 a small area of territory. 



Those who went to work as soon as the berries were gone, cleaned 

 out the old patches and kept up a continuous cultivation have a fair 

 prospect for berries. Some cut down their patches to a very narrow 

 width in the rows. The drouth prevented the formation of many new 

 runners, consequently the berries will have to be grown on the old plants, 

 which all berry growers know is not so good. 



Many growers failed to work out their vines until the ground 

 became so hard they could not, and they remained that way during the 

 entire season. Of course these patches will be comparatively worthless 

 and might as well be ploughed up. The vines set in the spring have 

 made but a few runners, and they of feeble gro"^Ai;h, and had it not been 



