i;!4 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



the first law they may ratify will be one to punish very severely the shot- 

 gun idiot who sneaks about shooting every bird he can see. 



With kind regards to the Society in general. Fraternally, 



MRS. G. K. DUGAN. 

 •' May Myrtle," Sedalia, Mo. 



To the President and Members of the Missouri State Horticultural 

 Society : 



Pardon me if I state as follows, as it may remove some erroneous 

 impressions. 



As a member of the Committee on New Fruits, I beg leave to make 

 the following short report on the subject assigned me. It is but little 

 that I can say at present about any of our newer fruits, but hope of being 

 able to do the subject due justice by the time of our winter meeting, I 

 have tried a few of the newer strawberries the past season. Cornelia 

 fruited for me this season, but, though a fair berry, does not come up to 

 any of our leading sorts. Jessie, we got some plants early last fall and by 

 careful nursing have brought them through the winter in fine shape; this 

 spring, however, every plant died. Warfield No. 2, w^e have purchased 

 this spring one hundred plants. They were excellent fine plants and 

 reached us in fine condition. We planted them with a great deal of 

 care, but to-day we have not got half a dozen good plants left, though 

 other sorts planted at the same time, have done fine. What can be the 

 cause I do not know. 



About other new fruit I can say but little at this time. About 

 the fruits imported from Switzerland, to which I have referred in my 

 last reports to the Society, I will say that a number of them have not 

 yet been positively identified. So I expect to find them all and see 

 what they are. In order to keep others from being mislead about the 

 matter I will here give Mr. Berkman's views on a number of the vari- 

 eties : 



''Louise Bonne d'Ai' ranches, or Bonnie Louise d'Avranches is the 

 name of the variety cultivated everywhere as Louise Bonne d' Jersey 

 (see Dovvning's Fruit Trees of America, last edition, page 805 ). 

 It has been described by Prevost in 1839, but was cultivated at Av- 

 ranches at the end of the last century. It is therefore one of our oldest 

 known kinds. 



