202 Missouri State Horticultural Society. 



Carpenter : — Apples being j)ared, cored and sliced they are 

 put in salt water they will keep. 



C. H. Fink: — He dried some sweet potatoes and Irish potatoes 

 and they were good for nothing. 



Hoffman : — Cook your sweet potatoes before evaporating. 



Carpenter : — Evaporate the sweet potato and they are fine. 



J. N. Menifee: — Do the fumes of the sulphur cause any 

 injury ? Thinks it does. 



S. K. FaulTcner : — Thinks that the sulphurous acid turns to 

 sulphur and does not cause any serious effects. 



Carpenter : — Thinks that sulphur is beneficial. Used fifteen 

 pounds in evajsorating one thousand pounds of dried fruit. It 

 pays to evaporate. Raspberries — three quarts make one pound ; 

 thirty-three pounds to one liundred quarts. 



Murtfeldt : — Thinks it is not very profitable where they can be 

 sold at as good prices as green fruit. If we do not use poor fruit, 

 we will have good evaporated fruit. 



LETTER FROM JOHN GABLER, ST. LOUIS. 



L. A. Goodman, Sec' y, Missouri State Hoi'ticultural Society: 



A few days ago I read in a paper that there will be a horticul- 

 tural meeting in St. Josej)h ; I send you a few remarks here which 

 you will be so kind as to publish : 



"While Missouri is a grape growing country, I think it will be 

 of interest to some grape growers to know of my experience in 

 grafting on the dog rose, Rosa Canina. 



I experimented several times with them and had success. The 

 stalks are best when they are raised from seed, because they have 

 better fiber roots than those taken out of the woods. They grow 

 best grafted by copulation and should be planted three inches under 

 the surface of the earth, so that the summer heat may not interfere 

 with the graft. The graft should not be over three to four inches 

 and such taken where the eyes are close together. In this way it is 

 possible that a vineyard can be planted and, by proper cultivation, 

 plants live at least fifteen or twenty years. For countries where the 

 Phylloxera spoils the grape vine this way of planting is of the 

 greatest value, because this insect does not destroy the roots. 



The best way of glazing greenhouses is as follows : Take a 

 common lamp wick, soak it in pure white lead, which first is mixed 



