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neighbors to know it. They are also a unit in trying to exterminate any 

 obstacle, which is more than can be said for many of the western fruit 

 growers. 



On Friday evening the meeting closed with a banquet at the 

 Berkeley Hotel, at which 150 plates were laid. It was a perfect horti- 

 cultural affair from first to finish, and to show you that some of our 

 favorites are not lacking in favoritism in the whole east, I want to 

 quote you some of the menu of that occasion. 



Ben Davis Oysters on the half shell. 

 York Imperial Celery. Jonathan Olives. 



Older from Alex. Olohan's Orchard. 



Baked Sheep Nose front. 



Older from Miller's Orchard. 

 Wlnesap Tenderloin of Beef. 



San Jose Scale Mushroom Sauce. 



Older from Thompson's Orchard. 



Grimes' Golden Turkey with Spencer's Seedless Cranberry Sauce. 



Green Pipin Potato Salad. 



Cider from Stewart's Orchard. 



Red Stark Ice Cream. Rambo Cake. 



Summer Rose Cheese. Consol Crackers. 



Cider from Tabler's Orchard. 

 Target Brand Coffee. 



Taking the meeting of the West Virginia Horticultural Society all 

 through, it was very entertaining, and its members consist of energetic, 

 educated horticulturists. When I first went there I told them I came 

 from Missouri and was to be shown. At the parting I was called upon 

 to know whether I had been shown or not. I had to acknowledge 

 I had been shown many things. Some of those things were 

 the great interest that is now being manifested in the fruit in- 

 dustry, compared with the little or no interest taken when I last saw 

 that section. Also the thriftiness of their old orchards, the age and size 

 of the trees. I ate apples that grew on old trees that were bearing when 

 I was a boy, Pennsylvania Red Streaks, Baldwins and Northern Spies. 

 And trees that I saw planted fifty years ago, of Milam, Rambo and Wine- 

 sap, all appeared to be just in their prime. Some sweet cherry trees 

 were over three feet in diameter, and I measured one pear tree three 

 and one-half feet through and 60 feet high. "They showed me !" 



The attendance at this meeting was large, something over 100 mem- 

 bers from West Virginia, with delegates and visiting horticulturists from 

 New York, New Jersey, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, 

 Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, South Carolina and Missouri. 



Long live the West Virginia Horticultural Society ! 



