i68 State Horticultural Society. 



MAGNIFICENT EXCURSION TENDERED TO THE AMERICAN 

 POMOEOGICAL SOCIETY BY KANSAS CITY SOUTH- 

 ERN AND 'FRISCO RAILROADS. 



The editor of the National Nurseryman is free to say that of the 

 many excursions he has participated in none was more instructive and 

 successful than that provided by the railroads mentioned above to the 

 members of the American Pomological Society at the close of the recent 

 Kansas City convention. 



Sixty-five ladies and gentlemen, members of the Society, comprised 

 the party, and the train consisting of two Pullmans left Kansas City at 

 eleven-thirty, on the night of the twenty-first, over the Kansas City 

 Southern. The party was returned to Kansas City on the morning -of the 

 twenty-seventh by the 'Frisco railroad. 



Transportation was provided by the railway companies and enter- 

 tainment by the citizens of the towns visited. — National Nurseryman, 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



POMOLOGISTS VISITED LAND OE THE BIG RED APPLE. 



Made Five-Day Junket Through the Ozarks — Were Met Everywhere by 

 Enthusiastic Crowds and Inspected Orchards. 



Men and women interested in the growing of fruits, who attended the 

 annual meeting of the American Pomological Society at the Coates House 

 last week and later went on a five days' junket by special train through 

 the Ozark country, returned to Kansas City yesterday mbrning at 8 

 o'clock. All were delighted with the refreshing and educative influence 

 of the inspection of that great fruit-producing section. Various parts 

 of it were visited, orchards were inspected, berry fields examined, and 

 there was an interchange of ideas between hosts and visitors, which, it is 

 believed, cannot but be helpful to both. Besides the practical part of it, 

 the tourists say they were more than hospitably treated everywhere they 

 went. They were met at the railroad stations by citizens of the various 

 towns visited, in some cases there was. a brass band and other formalities, 

 while in every case the callers were accorded the absolute liberties of the 

 town. 



The special train bearing the pomologists left the Grand Central 

 depot here at ii o'clock last Thursday night. The train proceeded to 



