28o State Horticultural Society. 



DESCRIPTION OF SECTION OF GRAPE VINE EXHIBITED AT 



THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



This section of the grape vine was taken several feet above the 

 ground. The part below though larger, was fractured. The part still 

 above^ near the same size all the way for thirty-five feet being near 

 fifty of main shaft to where it became attached to the top of a tall elm> 

 as it was in a thick forest the vine now branched out in every direction 

 forming a network among the tops of trees adjacent for say, fifty feet 

 square. 



This being too high up for the boys, a harvest for the raccoon and 

 birds. As to the amount of fruit, we are left to imagine a good crop 

 on such an immense space. 



This vine grew on Cane Island Farm of W. H. Fugate, Pratt, 

 Missouri, Ripley County: 26 inches in circumference; 100 years old. 



Easton, Mo., Feb. 5. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman — I am in receipt of a letter from you and I 

 find it very interesting reading. While no doubt you have accumulated 

 a few more gray hairs and wrinkles in serving us you have reaped laurels 

 for yourself and we may reasonably hope laid up useful knowledge that 

 will aid us in the future. I regret very much that I could not give the 

 exhibition more of my time, but I am just ever so thankful that I ever 

 beheld it at all in all its wondrous magnificence. I am also glad that 

 I met you there and that I was not disappointed in the man, I also want 

 to thank you for whatever you may have done in securing an award for 

 Dr. I. S. Talbot of Easton, an old christian gentleman whose work is 

 about done and who will certainly rejoice that his efforts in scientific 

 horticulture have been rewarded by a prize on apples grown by him on 

 his eighty-acre orchard here, coming as it does from the World's Great- 

 est exhibition. Thanks, also, for award given my co-worker, G. W- 

 Homan of Easton, on exhibit of fruit. For myself, to say that I am 

 proud would not express it, yet if only our State were victorious, I were 

 well repaid for the part I performed. How like we all are to the fellow 

 who carried bricks back and forth from one side of the street to the 

 other, "We are all carrying bricks." Again let me thank you in behalf 

 of the cause, for those of the future who will reap what you have sown, 

 who will speak with praise of the valuable work done by such noble- 

 men as L. A. Goodman. 



Respectfully yours, 



W. T. Davis, 



Easton, Mo. 



