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have only ten vines, five Moore's Early and five Concord, trained over 

 an arbor. I give them clean culture and apply about five bushels of 

 hardwood ashes each year and thoroughly dust with dry Bordeaux 

 mixture. Observations of effect of late frost on small fruit. In 1875 

 I was residing at Chamois, Osage count}--. I had growing in my 

 garden Concord and Catawba grape, Lawton blackberry, Doolitle 

 blackcap raspberry, Red Dutch currant and Wilson's Albany straw- 

 berry. When the grapes, blackberries and currants were in full 

 bloom and strawberries and raspberries had set considerable fruit 

 there came a freeze so severe that it killed all the new growth on 

 blackberries, raspberries, grapes and currants and also bloom and 

 fruit on strawberries. I remarked to my wife the next day, "You'll 

 not be troubled with putting up fruit this year." You can imagine 

 my surprise when in about two or three v/eeks later all the vines and 

 plants were again in full bloom and we had an abundance of all the 

 small fruits wie had in cultivation, with the exception of Catawba grape, 

 which failed to ripen its fruit before freezing weather in the fall. 



This year grapes were the only small fruit that had the new growth 

 killed. From these vines we had a splendid crop of grapes, while 

 the same varieties growing near Jefiferson City that were only partly 

 killed gave but a light crop of inferior grapes. This suggests to me 

 an experiment which I shall certainly give a trial if I ever have my 

 vines injured by late frost. I shall strip all new growth from the 

 vines, being careful not to injure dormant buds, thus forcing new 

 growth from dormant buds. I shall also experiment with blackberry 

 and raspberry along the same line. 



WORK AT THE SHAW SCHOOL OF BOTANY. 



(G. D. Schulte, Scholarship Student, St. Louis, Mo.) 



By the request of Mr. Goodman I shall endeavor to interest you 

 a while with a report concerning the Missouri Botanical Garden, and 

 the scholarship which I have the privilege of holding through the 

 appointment of the Missouri State Horticultural Society. Many 

 people hear or read of the Missouri Botanical Garden at St. Louis. 

 Many more visit it from year to year and revel in the pretty flowers, 

 well laid walks, the tastefully arranged green houses, and the rare 

 and valuable plants which they contain. Few of these thousands of 

 people know of the course of instruction that is oflfered to young men 

 desiring to advance themselves in the science of botany and at the 

 same time receive a thorough training in all subjects relating to 



