256 Missouri State Horticultural Society. 



EEPOKT OF EXHIBIT AT WOELD'S FAIR, JAN. 14, 1885. 



The committee appoiuted to make the exhibit at the World's 

 Fair, began packing the fruit (in cold storage) for shipment to 

 New Orleans on Dec. 39, 1884, and were kept busy all that week 

 sorting and siiipping the fruit. 



Some of the fruit had kept in good condition, but some varie- • 

 ties were lost. 



We found twenty barrels of fine specimens and packed them 

 in barrels lined with paper and every specimen well wrapped in 

 paper. With about twenty other barrels of specimens furnished by 

 our members, they were taken to the freight depot of the K. C. S. 

 & M. R. R. on Jan. 3, 1885, and put into a refrigerator car, kindly 

 furnished by the Ft. Scott railroad, and taken free to New Orleans. 

 They arrived there in good condition on the 9th and were soon on 

 the tables, in Horticultural Hall. 



The exliibit was one ever to be remembered. There were ten 

 tables six feet wide and one hundred and fifty feet long, completely 

 filled with fruit from the states of Central America on the south to 

 Canada on the north ; from the Atlantic to the Pacific ; from 

 across tlie ocean — Russia, France, Italy and England. Fruits of 

 all kinds and from many places — from the luscious oranges of the 

 south to the little crab apple of the north ; lemons, bananas, 

 oranges, cocoanuts, persimmons, apples, pears, peaches and plums. 



A place to study, to learn and to enjoy. A sight to be seen 

 once in a life-time and well worthy the study of every horticul- 

 turist. How jjlainly is there to be seen where peculiar varieties 

 are successful. The Ben Davis, so valuable here, when grown 

 in the north or far east seems to be worthless to us and I do not 

 wonder that they call it such a poor aj^ple. Notably are some of 

 the southern apples attracting our attention, as well also many 

 seedlings of our own ; and it is my opinion that these are to be most 

 valuable for our state. Here we will yet get our best and most 

 profitable apples. One instance I will mention. A valuable apple 

 seedling from Lewis county was prized by all who saw it and tested 

 it, at our St. Joe meetings, where it ^ook the premium as the best 

 . seedling. 



Tlie apple is called the Rankin, and was obtained from Mr. 

 Kirshbaura, of Tolona, Mo., and is a seedling grown by Mr. Ran- 

 kin. 



Another is Loy's seedling which I found in Howell county, a 



