268 State Horticultural Society. 



to get at results on a commercial scale it was necessary to refer to the 

 Missouri orchards. 



The greatest hindrance to the apple business in Iowa, especially in 

 the northern part, is the absence of good, hardy, winter varieties. The 

 Duchess and Wealthy are very satisfactory for summer and fall, but no 

 good winter variety has yet been found. However, the wonderful 

 effort that is being made for this discovery will certainly be rewarded 

 ere long, for their exhibit of seedling apples is most interesting. Mr. C 

 G. Patten exhibited his favorite, "Patten's Greening," and a cross of 

 Patten's Greening and Grimes Golden, which is a very promising variety. 

 His exhibit comprised some fifteen or sixteen seedlings, all of known 

 parentage and of more or less merit. 



F. O. Harrington of Williamsburg had on display the "Ideal," a 

 seedling originated at Des Moines and resembling very much the Rome 

 Beauty. Mr. Harrington says it is one of the coming apples of the 

 north. He had also several other seedlings of good appearance. L. A- 

 Clemons of Storm Lake made an interesting display of more than twenty 

 varieties of seedlings. Other smaller displays of seedling apples were 

 in evidence, and on the whole, these were an important feature of the 

 exhibit. 



The largest individual exhibit was that of D. L. Parsons, Irving- 

 ton, which comprised sixty varieties of apples. A total of more than 

 seven hundred plates of apples were neatly arranged on tables, and made 

 a show that any state might well be proud of. 



This display is accredited partly to the large premiums, a total of 

 $375.00, which were offered, and largely to the zeal and energy of those 

 illustrious lowans who believe in advertising their state by showing its 

 products to the best possible advantage. Unlike some of us Missouri- 

 ans, who have better fruit than they hid away at home, but who are 

 none the better off for that, because we lack the pride to let the fact be 

 known, or in other words, to show as we are shown. 



VISITORS. 



Visitors from other states were called tor and Capt. G. T. Lincoln 

 of Bentonville, Ark., addressed the Society, expressing his gratification 

 at again being at the Missouri meeting, saying that he was born in Mis- 

 souri, and had been visiting relatives and old friends, but had come t'; 

 the State Horticultural meeting to learn more for conducting his 

 orchards in Arkansas. 



