350 State Horticultural Society. 



interest of the coming generation, I plead for the rights of the Missouri 

 boy and giri. Children thus taught will live purer and happier lives. 

 They will not wish to leave the country with all its beauty and pleasures 

 for the over-crowded places in the city, 



SUMMARY. 



Fruit growing shouJd be taught in the public schools, because : 

 I. Fruit is a necessity io civilized man. 



It ministers to the aesthc.tic taste. 



It brings mental culture. 



It conduces to purity of life. 



It keeps the boy and the girl from'tIi^'".,umiatural and unwhole- 



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some life of the city. '" - 



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• Springfield Mo., January 14, I905- 

 L. A. Goodman : " , 



Dear Sir — At the last meeting of the Greene County Horticu^^tural 

 Society, it was voted unanimously to send you the congratulations' ^^^ 

 good wishes of the Society upon your re-election to the office of Secrei ^^Y^ 

 of the State Society, and inform you that we will stand by you in all y '°^'* 

 work in the interest of the State Society, and Horticulture at large. \ 



For myself I am more than pleased. I think the results of the Neos "^ 



meeting but prove the old saying that, "Right will in the end prevail ' 



and it certainly gives me great pleasure in sending you this message fror/* 



our local Society. We are having some severe winter weather, but d( ^ 



not think fruit is damaged yet. 



Yours truly, 



•r 

 Earl B. Hopkins, 



R. D. 3. Secretary. 



