240 MISSOURI STATE ilURTlCULTURAL SOCIETY. 



PERSIMMONS. 



The Kansas seedless, which is, however, not entirely free from seed, 

 but has fewer than any other that I am acquainted with, is the hirgest I 

 have, and cjuah'ty of the best. The tree is very ornamental also. 



St. Thomas, Ruby, Josephine and Early Golden all bore a crop, all 

 good but St. Thomas and Ruby. Trees still full of fruit. 



Having been summoned as a witness on a murder trial, it comes 

 just at the time that will prevent me from attendingour own stite meet- 

 inii: as also the Illinois. 



These infamous law suits are an intolerable nuisance. 



NEW STRAWBERRIES. 



HENRY SCHNELL, GLASGOW. 



I planted my first strawberries here at Glasgow, Missouri, in the 

 spring of 1882, and since that time have tried many of the new candi- 

 dates, as they appeared with their glowing descriptions. Though, 

 strange to say, I have found none to take the places of the old standard 

 varieties that I started with, and I still depend on these for the bulk of 

 the crop, and they are Crescent Seedling, Windsor Chief, Capt. Jack, 

 Harts' Minnesota, Mt. Vernon, Chas. Downing. Cumberland, and 

 Sharpless, the first four named occupying three-fourths of the ground. 

 Having failed so far in getting a new one to supersede these older sorts, 

 I do not wish to be understood that I lay any blame on the originators 

 or disseminators of these new berries. We all know what a change of 

 soil and climate, etc., brings about, and while I may grow a seedling 

 that will excel anything I now have growing, if it be taken perhaps 

 only one-half mile away in a different soil, it may prove entirely worth- 

 less. I remember during the berry season of 1878, while visiting friend 



