240 State Horticultural Society. 



Prof. Beach gave a fine and profitable talk on the soil question, the 

 choice of the best for orchards, the preservation of moisture. 



The lecture by H. J. Waters, Dean of the College of Agriculture, 

 Columbia, Mo., was on the subject of orchard fertilizer experiments, 

 and embodied all the published results that can be gotten together, as well 

 as the records and prospects of his own work in soil surveys and analysis. 



The fruit display was very good indeed, including some eighteen 

 dififerent exhibits, besides a collection from West Virginia, and one from 

 New Mexico, and from Kansas and Arkansas and Illinois ; also some 250 

 plants of fruit held in cold storage since the American Pomological meet- 

 ing in September, and exhibited at that time. 



Mr. Goodman writes from the meeting of New York State Fruit 

 Growers that the barrel of apples from this Missouri display was the best 

 on the tables there. 



The rooms of the meeting and the fruit exhibit were handsomely 

 decorated with festoons of ground pine, palm plants and most beautiful 

 sprays of holly. 



The presence of so many visitors from the other states gave an 

 added pleasure and zest to the sessions. — The Farm Money Maker, St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



MISSOURI FRUIT GROWERS. 



December Meeting of the State Association at Kansas City. 



After meeting for several years at various points throughout the 

 State, the Missouri State Horticultural Society returned this year to Kan- 

 sas City, and in the Coates House held one of the best of its always inter- 

 esting and instructive sessions. The Society probably never had a more 

 pleasant and commodious meeting place than this popular hotel, its large 

 audience room being admirably adapted for such gatherings. 



THE FRUIT EXHIBIT. 



The display of apples, which has come to be a prominent feature of 

 the winter meetings of the Society, was probably the best that has yet 

 been made. The exhibit was in the banquet room of the hotel, and to 

 look at the long line of connecting tables, covered with plates of every 

 variety of the finest specimens of the State's leading horticultural pro- 

 duct, it was difficult to believe that the year 1905 was not a good apple 

 year in Missouri. One would also conclude that from the appearance of 



