50 Missouri State HorticuUtiral Society. 



Manchester — Large and fine, but the plants can't stand our hot, 

 dry summers here. 



Mary Stewart — Late, good but too soft to ship. 



Magnum Bonum — Promising. 



Miller's No. 18 — A splendid new one, Geo. L. Miller, of Jones 

 Station, Ohio, is the originator. 



Miners G-reat Prolific — Large and fine but don't color early. 



Mrs. Gai'field — Not what I expected. 



McKensie — A fair sized berry of excellent quality and quite 

 productive. 



Nigli's Superb — Of no use with me, if I have it true. 



Old Iron Clad — Almost a failure. 



Piper — About tlie same. 



Prince of Berries — Of great promise. 



Rosenliam Seedling — Much like Cumberland Triumph. 



Walter — A new one, failure in the old bed but fine where set 

 out last fall. 



The failure of Old Ironclad and Piper I attribute to their flow- 

 ering at an unfavorable time when there was too much rain. Another 

 season may be different; occasionally a plant of each gave me 

 splendid berries, which are large and of good quality. Then again 

 Walter, Howell's Prolific and Hart's Minnesota, almost failures 

 in the beds Avhere they grew last summer, are fine as plants set out 

 last fall. 



All my new beds were set out after the first of October, and 

 such a crop as some of them bear this season would astonish those 

 who denounce fall planting. I have picked three berries at one 

 picking from a single plant of Jersey Queen, that would measure 

 five inches in circumference each, that were set out after the mid- 

 dle of October. 



Raspberries promise a fair crop. 



Gooseberries — The Downing — More fruit this season than my 

 plants ever bore before. 



Grapes — Promise better than we expected early in the spring. 



How I would like to be with you, but since that will not 

 happen you have my best wish for a pleasant meeting. 



Yours fraternally, 



SAMUEL MILLER. 



Bluffton, Mo., June 6, 1884. 



