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EEPORT OF HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETIES AND COUNTY 



EEPORTS. 



EEPORT OF SECRETARY OF MISSOURI VALLEY HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Missouri State Horticultural 



Society : 



By request of your secretary, I furnish a brief report of the 

 proceedings of the Missouri Valley Horticultural Society for the 

 present year. 



The meetings of the society, during the winter months, were 

 held at the office of Vineyard & Wilkinson in Kansas City. These 

 meetings were generally well attended and t!ie proceedings of a 

 very interesting character. 



The award of premiums on apples was kept up during the 

 entire winter, and we can say there was not a single meeting 

 during the present year that apples could not be found on the 

 society's tables. 



The proceedings of the meetings of the society are published 

 in the daily papers of Kansas City, and are eagerly sought after by 

 all classes of readers. The statements and reports whicii are made 

 at these uiontldy meetings are regarded as a kind of horticultural 

 thermometer, by which the consumer can form some idea of the 

 local fruit production. 



The executive committee marked out the best programme the 

 present year, (so far as concerns the selection of subjects for essays) 

 the society has ever known. And had each member responded by 

 producing the papers assigned him, we would have had a collection 

 of papers of whicli the society might well feel proud. But, not- 

 withstanding so many failed to come to time, we have quite a 

 collection of valuable and interesting papers, a list of subjects 

 which I append below : 



" Injury Done to Our Stone Fruits and What to do." Es- 

 sayist, G. F. Espenlaub. 



" How Shall the Horticulturist Maintain the Fertility of the 

 Soil.'' Essayist, Wm. Hopkins. 



"Mulching Cultivation, or Seeding Our Orchards." Essayist, 

 Durkes. 



