242 State Horticultural Society. 



that Black Ben Davis and Gano are one and the same variety; and 

 that their having been regarded locally as being different sorts is 

 only another case w^here isolated trees of variety, having been brought 

 to notice in somewhat widely separated neighborhoods, have each 

 for a time been given different names and each been honestly re- 

 garded as being of distinct seedling origin. The original notes, cor- 

 respondence and other data upon which this report is based are here- 

 with delivered into the possession of the society. 



J. C. WRITTEN, 



J. C. EVANS, 



W. T. FLOURNOY, 



Committee. 



N. F. Murray moved that the report of the committee be received 

 and adopted and that the committee be discharged. 



The motion was seconded and carried unanimously. 



SOME OF THE TROUBLES IN GATHERING APPLES FOR 



THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



(G. A. Atwood, Springfield, Mo.) 



The greatest trouble in gathering apples for the World's Fair to 

 be held in St. Louis in 1904 was to find bearing orchards. 



Many orchards are located alongside the railroads. This is 

 specially true of the thousand-acre orchards, of which there are now 

 ceven, and more in contemplation in South Missouri. But the frost 

 of April 30 seems to have been attracted by the steel rails, as the 

 bearing orchards were away off — out of sight of the columns of 

 smoke sent up by the iron horse — ^yes, beyond the sound of the 

 whistle of the engine. 



It was a fact, though, that there were next to no apples along 

 the main tracks of the South Missouri railroads, while some of the 

 orchards on the spurs of the main Ozark range, six to fifteen miles 

 from a shipping station, had full crops. 



Elevation and other conditions were the same on the spurs as on 

 the backbone. , Some one may surmise that the difference in yield 

 may have been caused by the difference in cultivation. Hardly ! for, 

 as a rule, there was not cultivation enough in either case to count. 



It was quite a trouble to drive through one or two counties to find 

 an orchard containing any apples that would measure up to Superin- 

 tendent Goodman's specifications. However, this was a case where 

 trouble was not to be considered. Our State was in a contest — honor 



