THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING 



OF THE 



MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



HELD AT NEVADA, MO., DEC. 5, 6, 7, 1888. 



UPON INVITATION OF THE VERNON COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Pursuant to the call and programme, the members of the Society 

 met in the Opera House and begun the arrangements of the fruits for the 

 meeting. There were along each side of the house two tables four feet 

 wide and forty-two feet long, filled with the most beautiful specimens of 

 apples ever shown in western Missouri. About one thousand plates of 

 fruit were shown by the State Society, and about two hundred and fifty 

 plates by private members for premiums. Around the hall were hung 

 twenty- six diplomas and certificates of award, taken by the Society at the 

 World's Fair and St. Louis Fairs, and on the table were four silver med- 

 als and one gold medal taken at The Mississippi Valley Horticultural 

 Society, the American Pomolcgical Society and the World's Fair. One 

 taken at St. Louis, Mo., one at Rochester, N. Y.. one at Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., and one at New Orleans, La. 



The room was finely decorated with festooning of evergreen moss 

 hung from the stage and all about the room. 



The meeting was an enthusiastic one, and the community was awake 

 to the importance of thi^ meeting as well as were the members of the 



