THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING 



OF THE MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, HELD AT FULTON^ 



MO. , DECEMBER 6, 7, 8, 1893. 



The meeting was held in the opera house. 



The Society began to collect early in the morning to prepare the 

 tables and the room for the display of fruits and vegetables. Five 

 large tables were filled with beautiful specimens of fruits, so that any 

 one looking at the fine array of apples made one think of the days 

 when our orchards were filled with beautiful specimens, and it did the 

 eyes good to look upon such a fine array of apples as were here shown. 

 • Besides the exhibit made from Missouri was a fair showing of 

 apples and pears from the far-away land of New Mexico, near Las 

 Cruces, very near the line of Old Mexico, where we hardly thought it 

 possible to grow good apples. Dr. J. M. Bailey had this collection on 

 exhibition, grown by irrigation in the valley of the Rio Grande, 4000 

 feet above sea level. 



L. L. Seller from Lake Charles, La., had a very fine collection of 

 southern fruits, grown about Lake Charles, of oranges, Japanese per- 

 simmons, pears and quinces, besides a large collection of about 25 va- 

 rieties of sugar cane ; also a lot of rice in the sheaf. 



Mr. Seller gave a glowing description of the values of land there 

 as a home and as an investment for farming or fruit-growing. 



A collection of apples was sent from St. Joseph ; from Exeter, 

 Barry county ; from Thayer, Oregon county ; from Mammoth Springs, 

 Ark.; from St. Louis, from Kansas City, and a large collection sent 

 from Chicago, from the World's Fair exhibit, making in all a very fine 

 showing indeed of about forty varieties and about four hundred plates. 



Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2 p. m. 

 Society met at the opera house promptly on time, and was called 

 to order by the President, J. C. Evans. All the ofiicers and about 50 

 delegates from different parts of the State were present, besides a good 



