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the undertaking was too vast, but what do we see here ? He had, he 

 said, seen all the big fruit displays in the East, but this Missouri display 

 was the finest of them all. Missouri is the garden of Pennsylvania. 

 The show is a great credit to the state, and to the United States. Could 

 this collection of fruit be set down in iVew York, how surprised they 

 would be that such specimens could be produced in Missouri. 



D. S. Holman, Treasurer Missouri State Horticultural Society, 

 Springfield. Missouri, being called on, said he had enjoyed listening to 

 the remarks more than he would speaking. Horticulture, he said, had a 

 manifold mission. There is nothing sel.i.sh in the calling ; it unites men 

 and states, and creates a feeling of sociability. He had been surprised 

 in the last few weeks to see the fine specimens that had coine in from 

 all parts of the state, and he was proud of her. He thought this meth- 

 od the best way to convince the people of the worth of Missouri as 

 a horticultural state, and wished that he was a young man, that he 

 might grow apples. 



Z. T. Russell. Secretary Jasper County Horticultural Society, Car- 

 thage, Missouri, expressed his pleasure in having had the opportunity of 

 seeing such a grand display of fruits and studying the different varieties. 

 He would return home with renewed zeal in the cause of horticulture, 

 and would do better work in the future. 



After a few farewell remarks by the President, the meeting adjourn- 

 ed. — Riiral Wo7'ld. 



The result of all this work and labor of so many can be only appre- 

 ciated in time. Day after day and year after year will prove what we 

 now state, that no greater success was ever made by any fruit show in 

 the United States. The work of going over the whole of the show every 

 day or two, dusting, wiping, cleaning, taking off the decayed ones and 

 replacing with fresh can only be realized by those who have tried it. 



At the close of the exposition there were on the tables nearly one 

 hundred and fifty bushels of fruit, and I suppose that there were used in 

 the whole nearly five hundred bushels of fruit, to keep it up during the 

 forty days. At no time did the display deteriorate, but each time, day 

 by day, it grew better, so that at the end it was better than it ever had 

 been. 



About one hundred and twenty plates were selected and sent to 

 Washington, there to be prepared for the display to be made in Paris 

 next year. I am sure that no better specimens could be found anywhere 

 in the whole United States than those we sent. 



