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Station. He has in course of preparation a bulletin on new apples, which will be 

 a valuable addition to oar horticultural literature. 



All these new seedlings have been numbered, and will be known by number 

 until they have been thoroughly tested. 



Another promising seedling is a beautiful red apple from our friend 3. W. 

 Gilbert of Oregon county. You will find specimens of all these varieties mentioned 

 on exhibition here, and can examine them at your leisure. 



Our entries at the World's Fair included 722 varieties of fruits and vegetables 

 preserved in glass jars, 4744 plates of fruit preserved in cold storage from 1892, land 

 5705 plates of the fresh fruits of 1893, besides evaporated fruits and canned goods. 



To look at our exhibit of fruit, as compared with the rest of the world, one 

 would be led to believe that we occupy a very important place among the states 

 and nations of the world, and so we do. As one visitor expressed it, "seems like 

 Missouri is taking more than her share in here." True, we had a large display — 

 the largest general display, all things considered, space covered, length of time 

 kept up, variety, etc.— made by any state except California. Of apples alone we 

 showed as many as any other two states combined. 



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Editor Rural World : As the time approaches for our winter meeting, the 

 prospects seem bright for a good meeting, I am sure we will be delighted to see 

 many new faces from all parts of the State present with us. A great deal is to be 

 learned by thus meeting together, and we always find some one at these meetings 

 that knows more on some points than we do. The editorials in the Rural were 

 well timed and well said. The more we study our work and discuss these matters, 

 the more we think of our calling and the better we are able to cope with the 

 adverse trials of fruit-growing. Your appeal to the fruit-growers to make this 

 the rallying point of our work and experience is a good one. 



The report of our display at Chicago will be an interesting one, the criticisms 

 on it will be still more interesting, and the discussion of the management, the jury, 

 and the plan of awarding, still more so. Our exhibit there secured 19 medals 

 during the summer, and we are well pleased with what has been done. There 

 never was a day when we did not have on our table 300 to 400 plates of fruits and 

 1000 to 1200 jars of all kinds filled with all the fruits that grow in Missouri. No 

 one state had such a supply of apples on the tables every day of the six months as 

 we had. Many of the states had nothing on their tables until apples began to 

 «ome in July, and then only a small amount. 



I say that we are well pleased with our exhibit during the whole of the sum- 

 mer, in spite of the very scarce time for beautiful specimens. In no year could it 

 have been so hard to secure good specimens, and no time could have been chosen 

 when we could not call upon our fruit-growers about the State and get all the fruit 

 we could put on the tables at any time. But where we had placed our greatest 

 dependence for a large collection of varieties, the severe season destroyed our 

 prospects. Many of our members could and would have gladly sent us a large 

 collection, but they were not to be had in their community. Still, with all these 

 drawbacks and hindrances, we have had on our tables as fine a lot of fruits as 

 could be collected, and feel proud of our display. 



I am sure that there was no more artistic display, nor a more complete one, 

 than the one from Missouri, both from an educational standpoint and as a collec- 

 tion and display of fruits. The range covered by the display was the whole range 

 of fruit-growing from one year to another, leaving no time in the whole year but 



