38 Missouri State Horticultural Society. 



Colman's Rural World offers the following notes : 

 The report of the Missouri State Horticultural Society for 1883 

 is published, and forms a very neat, well bound volume of 350 

 pages. It is, without question, the best annual report ever offered 

 to the people of the State, and reflects the highest credit on the 

 able and industrious secretary, Mr. L. A. Goodman, of Westport, 

 Mo. The regular proceedings of the society are well arranged, but 

 they form only a part of the volume. In addition to this matter, 

 which is highly instructive, embracing as it does, a great fund of 

 information for the horticulturists of the west and south, as well as 

 the State of Missouri, we have from the pen of the secretary,, who 

 is himself an experienced and practical fruit grower, a good deal of 

 valuable matter that will be read with interest by the pomologists 

 of the country. 



The " Secretary's Budget " is replete with timely and useful 

 information, to which he has added the best tlioughts and sayings 

 of the leading horticulturists and writers of the country. The 

 subjects take a wide range, embracing orchards, vineyards, small 

 fruits, the best varieties, the care and attention necessary, how to 

 fight the insect and other enemies of fruits. The flower and vege- 

 table gardens receive proper notice, the adornment of home and 

 a host of kindred subjects, are briefly handled by the ablest au- 

 thors. Every man engaged in fruit growing to any extent, would 

 find much bet^'een the covers of this volume, to entertain and 

 instruct him. Membership, it appears, is only a dollar a year, and 

 each member is entitled to a copy — getting a book which is really 

 cheap at the price, in addition to the other advantages of member- 

 ship. 



Rural Neu) Yorher reports as follows : 



CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 



Eeport of Missouri State Horticultural Society for 1883 : L. A. 

 Goodman, Secretary, Westport, Mo. This is a handsome volume 

 of 354 pages," containing a report of the workings of the Society 

 during the last year, together with the parsers and discussions at 

 the annual meeting, held at Carthage, Mo., December, 11, 12 and 

 13, 1883 ; also the Secretary's '^ Budget" of 190 pages, filled with 

 the best sentiments on various subjects by the best writers, carefully 

 culled by the Secretary. We are glad Missouri, with her thousands 

 of acres of the best fruit lands in the world, is doing so much for 

 horticulture ; yet, when we realize how little she is doing in pro- 

 portion to what she ought to do to show her peo]3le how much more 

 profit there is in one acre devoted to fruit, if well cared for, than in 



