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MISSOURI FRUIT. 



SUCCESS Ol' THE I)TSPI,AY MADE AT THE GREAT ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION. 



Entering the room occupied by the Missouri State Horticultural So- 

 ciety at the Exposition, one is impressed with the magnitude of the fruit 

 display. The whole of the room formerly occupied by Barr's exhibit is 

 given up to the fruit display. Here, arranged by counties, are the fruits 

 which each has sent, to show the people that their county is adapted to 

 fruit-growing. Thirty-erght of the counties of the State are represented, 

 some with a large and elaborate display of 250 or 300 plates, embracing 

 all the varieties of apples, pears and grapes grown in their counties. Here 

 are seen apples from the very earliest — the red June — to the latest of the 

 winter varieties, which are not yet even ripe. When one begins to 

 count the trouble and expense of such a collection of all the summer, 

 fall and winter fruits, and of keeping them up for a space of six weeks, 

 they then see the necessity of work and money to make such a showing; 

 all of these county displays made by members of the State Horticul- 

 tural Society, for the glory of the state, and without a cent of pay, even 

 in many cases paying their own expenses, and in every instance giving 

 their time without recompense ; it seems that the enthusiastic horticul- 

 turist is not only anxious to let the world know what can be grown in 

 the State, but to tell them how to grow it. 



This display is thus made by the fruit-growers of the state to let the 

 thousands of visitors from the different states see that Missouri is pecul- 

 iarly adapted to fruit-growing in all its branches. In fact, they want to 

 prove to the visitors, and to man}' of the people of their own state as well, 

 that Missouri is what the}' claim for it, " The very best state in the 

 Union for fruit-growing." ^ 



THE OlijECT OK INCREASE. 



As one of the members stated, " There is no better opening in any 

 ine of business than <j(iocl, intellicrent. s\-stcmatic fruit-growing, on the 



