'20'2 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Wednesday, 2 p. m. 



The following committees were appointed: 



Committee on Fraite — J. W. Stanton, Illinois; A. Bronson, Iowa ; 

 W. G. Gano, Missouri. 



Committee on Flowers — Judge Miller, Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. Chandler. 



Committee on Finance — J.T. Snodgrass, N.F.Murray, D. A.Rob- 

 nett. 



Committee on Obituary — A. Nelson, F. H. Speakman, H. Schnell. 



Committee on Final resolutions — J. G. Kinder, K. J. Bagby, A. H. 

 Gilkeson. 



Mr. Nelson — Every speaker should give his locality. I am from 

 the summit of the Ozarks. I operate up and down the Frisco road for 

 many miles. High quality early fruits pay. We sell other apples in 

 Memphis by the barrel for 50 or 75 cents more than we get for Ben 

 Davis. I speak as a grower, a buyer and a shipper. The Maiden 

 Blush is among the surest bearers in our country. It has not failed in 

 35 years. 



Indianapolis, Ixd. , December 18, 1897. 

 To Secretary Horticultural Society, Moberly, Mo. : 



The Indiana Horticultural Society responds to your greeting. Accept thanks and best 

 wishes. J. Troop, Secretary. 



THE FUTURE OF HORTICULTURE IN MISSOURI. 



In considering the future of horticulture in our State, it is but 

 natural to include the future of Missouri State Horticultural Society. 

 So closely has this Society been identifi^^d with the development of 

 horticultural interest in the past that we may be assured that it will 

 be so in the future, and as this interest expands and grows, so should 

 the work of this Society expand into newer and broader fields of use- 

 fulness to the true interests of those engaged in horticultural pursuits. 



The business of fruit-growing is prolific in bright hopes and bitter 

 disappointments. We see a splendid result attained with but ordinary 

 skill and attention when straightway in our minds we conclude by 

 multiplying the acreage, and multiply this by a series of like successful 

 years, we soon arrive at a comfortable bank account and a financial 

 state of comfort and affluence for the balance of a lifetime. But alas, 

 it somehow will not work out in practice. 



The susceptibility of fruit to unfavorable climatic changes and 

 conditions; the varibility of success, with varieties when grown on 

 different soils; its perishable nature liaiiting the scope of profitable 



