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But the great wealth of that country will be iu the fruit-grow- 

 ing industry. It has hardly made a start, and every year will see a 

 wonderful stride foward. 



Three years ago the president of the Missouii State Horticul- 

 tural Society, Maj. Z. S. Ragan, called the attention of its members 

 to this localit}' as peculiarly adapted to the growth of fruits, and 

 now he says he is more than convinced that within a few years the 

 whole southern slope of the Ozarks will be covered with or- 

 chards. 



At Olden, Howell county, the Olden Fruit Company have 

 made a beginning. The 1,300 acre fruit farm is beginning to 

 show. This year were planted twenty thousand peach and apple 

 trees, and they are in good shape and starting finely. 



This is but the beginning, and each year will see about twenty 

 thousand more planted until the whole will be planted. The 'lo- 

 cation at Olden we think the choicest to be found ; a good town 

 site, good switch and level land near it, and we jjrophesy it to be 

 the nucleus of a large, very large fruit district. 



L. A. GOODMAN. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE. 



Your committee on nomenclature can at this time only 

 reiterate the substance of what ' was contained in their report 

 made at the semi-annual meeting of this society, in June last. As 

 recommended by the Hon. Marshall P, Wilder, and later by the 

 Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society at their session in January 

 last, we would again urge upon the members of the Missouri State 

 Horticultural Society, the importance of doing away with, as far 

 as possible, all unnecessary synonyms and that the names retained 

 be shortened, simplified and made to indicate some quality or val- 

 uable peculiarity of its fruit. J. C. EVANS, 



Ch'm'n Com. 



