3G6 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



went to Omaha, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Minneapolis, while a lot of choice- 

 apples were also sent to Mansfield, La. 



I will here give you the names of some of our best members, who 

 are now raising strawberries and are setting out large orchards : 



F. Gutmann, F. Utz, F. Kimmich, 0. Hausser, K. Smalzried, C. 

 Grabenstein, Mrs. F. Grabenstein, G. Bochert, C. Hoerer, H. Walter 

 F. Buecheli, Jos. Muellerschoen, etc., all of Hugo, Mo. Besides these 

 there is Mr. J. Drummond and Mrs. F. Thornhill and W. Loane of 

 Hugo, Mo. They also are greatly interested and do not see why they 

 do not answer questions, perhaps they do. But you must not feel hard 

 about those others, for they cannot do it. There was some talk among 

 the Germans about reorganizing in German, which would be done at 

 once, but it would shut out the Americans. I cannot tell how the 

 matter w ill yet be managed. 



The Ben Davis apple will be very extensively planted here in the 

 future, with a few Jonathans and Huntsman, but few others. Of pears, 

 Clapp's Fav., Howell and Keiffer's. We are all afraid to plant Le Conte r 

 though our experience last summer was that it would sell well. Bartlett 

 is of no value with us, fully 50 per cent of the fruit we find knotty and 

 defaced, so as to make it unsaleable. 



Of strawberries, Cumberland, Captain Jack and Crescent are likely 

 to be planted largely for years to come here, or at least until some of 

 the newer sorts prove to be more profitable. 



I was very sorry I could not be with you all at Lebanon, though I 

 could not have enjoyed the discussions, etc., I would have enjoyed 

 seeing the fruit. I had got as far as St. Louis, where I had some busi- 

 ness to see to, but could not get off in time to come. I then took the 

 money I should have spent, had 1 come, and got me some books that 1 

 needed badly. I am now having quite a library, and shall keep on, 

 adding to it. I now have such works as Downing's, Thomas and 

 Barry to refer to, and I find that I need them quite often, and don't see 

 how 1 got along without them so long. 



I have been experimenting with new fruits a great deal the past 

 season. I fruited Y. Transparent the first time on grafts, set on Early 

 Harvest, and am now convinced that it is a week earlier. The Rist, 

 however, topgrafted on Lawver, got ripe nearly a week before Y„ 

 Transparent. This is not the Reist described by Downing, but origi- 

 nated with a Mr. Rist, of near Table Rock, Neb., where S. Barnard first 

 brought it to notice. I have just learned about Mr. Barnard's death. 

 Our best workers are indeed dropping off fast. 



I intended sending you a report on New Fruits for the winter 

 meeting, but after getting the program, I dropped the matter, seeing 



