298 State Horticultural Society. 



grows so large and red tliat I am afraid to tell you how large it grows 

 for fear you would accuse me of misrepresentation. 



I have two seedling clings that are large and fine. We have named 

 them Anna and Ethel after our two little daughters. 



Our merchants are always asking in the fruit season: "How is 

 your fruit? Will you have any peaches that are fine? If so, we want 

 to handle them for you, etc." 



And strawberries ! Well, we grow them. I have grown them as 

 large as common apples and sold $56 worth from one-tenth of an acre, 

 besifles whaL we ate. 



Visitors from Ohio and ISTew York have said they never saw finer 

 ones than they found in our grounds. IsTeighbors have grown them 

 equally as large. As to varieties, we have never found anything to 

 equal the old Crescent and Bubach, fertilized with the Jesse. Our only 

 trouble is we get too miany runners on the Crescent and too few on the 

 Bubach and Jesse. 



I am quite sure that I have grown as fine grapes on my own farm 

 as ever grew in Ohio, New York, or any other place noted for grape 

 growing east of the great Father of Waters. One man near Farming- 

 ton this year grew in his garden one ton, two hundred and twenty-two 

 pounds of grapes whicli he sold at four cents per pound which brought 

 him $88.88 just from his few vines in his garden. Others have done 

 equally well or better and the growth of the vines is enormous. 



In my own vineyard for family use I have nineteen varieties of 

 i;he 5nost table grapes, but in the field vineyard, set last spring, I 

 have only two varieties, viz.: the Concord and the Moore's Early. I 

 am testing Campbell's Early and other newly introduced varieties 

 alongside the old standards and hope to be able to give 

 some interesting reports some day in the near future. All 

 the leading varieties do well here and grow large crops 

 annually. In 1897 we gathered our last bunches of grapes on 

 November 10, and they were still in perfect condition in the bags. I 

 hope that all grape growers will remember that the celebrated Bushberg 

 vineyards and nurseries are in southeast Missouri, and all the gi'apes 

 that do well anywhere in north temperate America are grown and tested 



