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I submit a few complimentary notices of our last report: 



Leavenworth, Kas., August 23, 1893. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, Secretary Missouri State Horticultural Society : 



Dear Sir— Through your kindness, 1 am in receipt of your 35th annual report, 

 and an excellent and instructive one it is. 



What a development you have created in Missouri. What a noble body of men 

 and women you have enlisted and working in horticulture. The desire to share 

 the society of your intelligent, wide-awake workers makes one almost wish he was 

 a citizen of your most favored State. It seems to me that you are bound to push 

 the old State to first place. I trust the State will appreciate your work and reward 

 you accordingly. Yours very truly, 



E. J. HOLMAN. 



Grebnsborough, N. C, Dec. 29, 1893. 

 To the Commissioner of Agriculture, Jefferson City, Mo. : 



Dear Sir — In a recent letter from the Agricultural department, Washington, 

 D. C, reference is made to your State horticultural Society's report, which con- 

 tains valuable information as to the propagation and cultivation of the raspberry. 

 If it is possible, I should like to obtain this report. If you are not tha proper 

 party, will you please put this in the hands of the gentleman having the matter in 

 -charge, and oblige Yours truly, 



E. J. P>3RNEY. 



St. Anthoxy Park, Minn , Nov. 24, 1893. 

 L. A. Goodman, Sec'y Mo. Horticultural Society : 



Dear Sir — It is with much interest that I note the subjects for discussion at 

 jour next meeting. The past season has certainly been a hard one for fruit-growers. 

 I think we must in the future pay more attention to methods of culture. The use 

 of the mulch and the spraying machines is going to do much to help us to a greater 

 -certainty in raising fruit-crops. I trust that it will be a long time before we have 

 auch a season as the past. 



Trusting jou will have a pleasant meeting, I remain 



Cordially yours, Samuel B. Green, 



Prof. Horticulture. 



THE WORLD'S FAIK. 



E. L. POLLARD, CAMERON, MO. 



Having been in the employ of the Missouri State Horticultural Society at the 

 World's Fair, Chicago, for six months, in the interest of the State, it is perhaps 

 proper that I should tell you of some of the things that interested and impressed 

 me in the work in hand. It luight be well for us, in looking back at the display 

 made by us at the Fair and comparing it with the rest of the world, to remember 

 that the territory that we represented there was only one three-thousandth part of 

 the territory supposed to be represented ; we will understand, therefore, that Mis- 

 souri is not the only spot on the face of the earth ; neither is it tbe only place where 

 fruit is grown. 



This idea evidently pervaded the New England gentleman's mind with regard 

 to his own state, who, on examining our exhibit and observing its attractiveness, 

 remarked. '• I declare, I did not know they raised fruit in Missouri." Still, Mis- 

 souri is not the only state or country that produces apples. We had displays of 

 apples side by side from the hills of Maine, the sunny slopes of California, from the 



