386 State Horticultural Society. 



Wm. Pert-y and E. Williams of New Jersey, and Charles Gibb and D. W. 

 Beadle of Canada. These are among the noble and useful men who have 

 made the world better and happier, by their labors in horticulture. They 

 and others that might be mentioned were active participants in the scenes 

 that were transacted in and about Horticultural Hall at New Orleans. 

 There may be many readers who will be interested in reading of this 

 building and its surroundings, and any who have the opportunity should 

 visit it and see for themselves this place of rare beauty and where some 

 of the historic events in American horticulture occurred. 



THE VALUE OF THE APPLE IN THE HOME. 



(Read before a meeting of the Central Illinois Horticultural Society, by 

 Mrs. H. M. Dunlap of Savoy, 111.) 



When your worthy secretar}- assigned me this topic, the apple was 

 so much in evidence at our orchard farm, which we call "Rural Home," 

 that he thought I could entertain you at length upon its value to every 

 American at least. He found me in the orchard surrounded by the big 

 red Ben Davis, and I know its beauty and its attested usefulness from a 

 dietetic standpoint immediately suggested this topic to him. 



Truly, for ourselves and our foreign neighbors, the apple is begin- 

 ning to be recognized from a dietetic view as one of the most valuable 

 of fruits. One dietetic authority going so far as to assert that the two 

 items, wheat and apples, are capable of supplying all the elements of nu- 

 trition. Now, by wheat he did not mean food made from our patent 

 process flour, but he meant fo'od prepared containing all the elements 

 contained in the wheat grain that was given it by nature. Notwith- 

 standing the conclusions arrived at by some of our chemists — that the 

 patent process flour is as nutritious and hunger satisfying as that made 

 from the whole wheat grain, there are some who still testify to the fact that 

 nature in the whole grain has certainly provided better for man than that 

 accomplished by the patent process, when some of the grain's elements 

 have been eliminated. 



A food expert once said to me : *T wish that plenty of apples could 

 be supplied to every school boy and girl, for I am assured that better 

 health and conseqently better morals would be the result." She thought 

 it w^ould be an excellent plan to place barrels of them where they could 

 have them for their noon-day lunch. I know every apple grower here 

 would second that movement if made by our school board. 



Some of our horticultural pessimists are declaring that we are having 



