260 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A LIST OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS BY MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY^ 



Question 1. Mention those fruits most successfully grown in Missouri. 



Apples, pears, peaches, in South Missouri ; plums (native), grapes, cherries 

 (Duke and Morello varieties), strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, goose- 

 berries. 



2. Mention those less successfully grown. 



Peaches in North Missouri; plums (foreign), apricots, nectarines, quinces^ 

 currants, mulberries, cherries ( Heart and Bigarreau varieties). 



3. Name, if any, the native fruits of Missouri. 



Pawpaw, persimmon, haw, crab-apple, grapes, elderberries, strawberries^ 

 raspberries, blackberriep, gcoseberries. 



4. Name the natural or wild fruits of Missouri that are profitable. 

 Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, grapes and gooseberries. 



5. Name the nuts grown successfully in Missouri. 

 Hickory, walnut, pecan, hazel. 



6. Name the foreign fruits that find a market in Missouri. 



Bananas, pine-apples, oranges, lemons, citron, grapes, prunes, dates and figs^ 



7. What fruits can we ship successfully to foreign countries? 

 Apples, oranges, lemons and grapes. 



8. What fruits are shipped green and ripen after being shipped ? , 

 Bananas, oranges and lemons. 



9. Name the common kinds of packages used in shipping fruits. 

 Boxes , baskets, crates and barrels. 



10. Name the common kinds used in handling fruits at the orchard. 



Quart boxes for berries, ^-bushel boxes and baskets, 1-bushel baskets and 

 boxes, and barrels for apples. 



11 . What methods used in preserving and shipping fruits not in their natural 

 state ? 



Evaporating, canning, drying, preserving and crystalizing. 



12. What is the weight of a bushel of apples? 

 Forty-eight pounds. 



13. What is the weight of a bushel of dried apples ? 

 Twenty-four pounds. 



14. What is a fruit ? 



That portion of a plant which consists of ripened carpels and the parts ad- 

 hering to them ; that part of the plant which contains the seed, covering and 

 including the seed, such as apple, peach, pear, strawberry, raspberry, grape, etc. 



15. What is meant by fruit-candies? 



Fruits dipped into hot sugar syrup and then dried. 



16. What is meant by evaporated fruit ? 



Fruit dried in hot-air receptacles which rapidly expel the moisture and bleach 

 the fruit. 



17. What purpose does fruit serve as food ? 



Assists the digestion, serves an appetizer, contains sustenance for the body. 



18. What is a scion ? 



The last year's growth cut from a plant, intended to be grafted upon another 

 plant, known as the stock 



