202 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



E. T. Hollister — Every man who goes to the store with his jug 

 wants cider vinegar. He would go home with the jug empty if told 

 that he could get only acid vinegar. 



As a substitute for Capt. Hynes' motion, the subject was referred 

 to the committee on legislation. 



The following resolution was passed: 



Resolved, That this society indorse the sentiments expressed in the paper on 

 vinegar just read by Mr. Patterson, and recommend that the legislature of the state 

 of Missouri be requested to pass a law that will protect the interests of the fruit- 

 grower in this: that the manufacturers of vinegars and jellies, butters, jams and 

 wines made of fruits will be compelled to put their goods on the market under their 

 proper name, showing what they are manufactured of, under heavy penalty. 



THE DARK SIDE OF FRUIT GROWING. 



HENRY SPEER, BUTLER, MO. 



The business of growing fruit has many dark phases as well as 

 most other occupations, and as a member of the Committee on 

 Orchards, I shall confine myself to a few that particularly affect the 

 grower of apples. It is certainly dark enough for the grower when, 

 after paying a high price for a lot of trees, doing a large amount of 

 work, and finding that either through the fault of the nurseryman or 

 agent, or through his own carelessness, he has a lot of dead and dying 

 trees which are worthless. How many planters have had this kind of a 

 cloud to pass between them and their visions of pleasure and profit. 

 None can tell, but their number is legion. 



Another cloud that has darkened the sky of the fruit-grower, to a 

 greater extent perhaps than any other, is a bad selection of varieties. 

 He plants those varieties that were favorites in his boyhood days, in 

 father's old orchard, only to find that they were worthless in his pres- 

 ent location, or ripened at a time that they could not be profitably 

 marketed, or failed to fruit at all in paying quantities; or after making 

 a fine growth for a few years and bearing iew choice apples, we have 

 one of our test winters followed by a dry, hot summer, and the pet 

 favorites are dead, and instead of the handsome, fruitful tree we have 

 an unsightly trunk, and the high hopes are blasted. Or he buys a bill 

 of trees of a ReLieable agent of a Re-Lie-able nursery. He plants 



