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We can grow the fruit, and have grown it, and now we want the 

 people to know it. 



The State Society is ready to do its part if you will only help 

 us. We should have at least five hundred members, and they 

 should all take an interest in this matter. 



Our State Society expects to make an exhibit of fruits at -New 

 Orleans next winter at the great exposition, and will want your 

 help. 



We expect to send out in May for a report on the prospects of 

 the fruit, and again in August, and on receipt of these reports we 

 will send a circular containing the results of these inquiries. It 

 will ffive us an idea of the amount of fruit to be had. 



In June we expect also to have a summer meeting, and wish to 

 see a good delegation there. Every member of the State Society is 

 entitled to the state report and all crop reports. 



I hope you will consider this matter of the State Society of 

 enough interest to you and the State to become a member, and 

 send the secretary II for membership. 



Now this is not a matter to be put off, or turned aside lightly, 

 but if you are interested in fruit growing, and interested in the 

 success of our State Society and its work, you should use as mucli 

 judgment in this as any other matter of business, and become a 

 member and stand by your State Society. 



L. A. GOODMAN, State Secretary. 



In answer to this I received the names of some fifteen or 

 twenty members and some of them are the old members of the 

 society who are willing to come back if we will do anything. 



Of course we will do something and this meeting will be one 

 instance of showing what we can and will do. 



The Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society met at Kansas 

 City last January 22nd, 24th, and it was one of the best meetings 

 if not the very best ever held in the country. Attending that 

 meeting were fruit men from eighteen different states and some of 

 the very best of them. The meeting was characterized throughout 

 with an enthusiasm seldom seen, and the discussions were of that 

 kind that showed experience and knowledge. I speak of this matter 

 because the society came to Kansas City upon invitation of the 

 Missouri State Society and it is one of the steps in the right 

 direction. 



A display of about 80 varieties of apples, pears and quinces 

 were shown and they were the admiration of all. The com- 



