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dark cellar to await a coming county fair, and when that time arrived you 

 found their russety exterior turned to a golden yellow : you gave one of 

 them a gentle squeeze, only to find its tender body giving way, leaving its 

 tears on your finger tips. Then you lifted it carefully by the stem, ele- 

 vated your chin and allowed }Our store teeth to cut out an ample slice. 

 You didn't mind the honeyed juice meandering from both angles of your 

 mouth and trickling down on your vest. You took another and still an- 

 other bite ; you found no hard core, so you chewed the seeds and the stem, 

 too, now didn't you ? And you felt then that there was still left you a 

 remnant of the Garden of Eden. 



XEW VARIETIES— A LETTER. 



Oak Ridge, Mo., Feb. 12, 1904. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, Kansas City, Mo. : 



Dear Sir — We have received the report of the Missouri Horticultural 

 Society, and thank you kindly for same. If yovi have any good re- 

 ports or anything good to read on horticulture at any time it will be ap- 

 preciated, as we are fond of reading on fruits. In looking over the re- 

 port on cherries we notice that you don't grow the Trilby and the Poca- 

 hontas cherries. We propagate both. The Pocahontas belongs to the 

 Duke family, the Trilby belongs to the Heart family. The Trilby favors* 

 the White Oxhart, but is a larger berry ; it is the largest cherry we have 

 seen ; it is sweet, a thrifty grower. The parent tree is as large as a 

 flower barrel, about 35 or 40 feet high, looks like a wild cherry tree from 

 distance ; we cut some of the buds from the trees. They claimed it bore 

 eight bushels of cherries two years ago ; it is a sure cropper. The Poca- 

 hontas is from Perry county, sometimes called the Pope, after the man 

 who owns the tree. This cherry is like May Duke, but more prolific ; it 

 is a very strong grower in nursery and orchard. Our soil is limestone 

 and porous sub-soil. If you wish to try a couple of trees of these, they are 

 one year old straight, we will send you two of Trilby and one of Poca- 

 hontas as gratis for trial. The parent tree of Trilby stands four miles 

 north of our nursery at the Baldridge farm ; it looks as large as one of 

 the small plums. We cannot propagate enough of them ; the parties who 

 know them want nothing else. I have crossed Winesap wath Beach 

 apple, also Ragen Yellow with Ortley ; they are one year old this year. 

 T crossed Winesap and Ben Davis' Kieffer and Edmonds. I love the 

 work, and practice on fruit. I had to give up my trade as tinner, so we 

 went in the nursery business. I think we will have peaches here if they 

 (ion't get killed in the spring ; we had four degrees below zero. My 



