S24 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



NEVV FRUITS. 



Mr. Evans — We have a committee on new fruits, but I believe there 

 is not a member of that committee present. We may have a few re- 

 marks from members who have examined the new fruits on the tables. 



Mr. Robards — I believe I am one of that committee. I will report 

 upon only one that has been upon the table, grown by a farmer, Mr. 

 Staley. It has a cocoanut flavor and makes no small apples, grows to 

 good size, sweet. 



Mr. Murray — I am interested in some new fruits, among them the 

 Babitt apple. The tree is hard)', a good grower, makes fine nursery 

 trees and bears well. Some agents have been selling trees for a high 

 price under this name which were rough and crooked, while the true va 

 riety is nice and straight. No other nurseryman has been propagating 

 it long enough to have large trees to sell in any considerable quantity. 



Mr. Goodman — I have here some winter pears from Mr. Mallinckrodt, 

 of St. Charles, which he desires you to test, and report whether you think 

 the variety worthy of dissemination. 



Mr. Holsingcr — I think the pear is worthy of cultiva-tion. The flavor 

 is very pleasant, and the fact of its being a winter pear makes it desir- 

 able. 



Mr. Robards — Most winter pears lose their flavor. These seem to 

 be of very good flavor. 



Mr. Evans spoke of the new fruits coming to light in the Ozark 

 region of south Missouri and north Arkansas, such as the Minkler, the 

 Horwell. He had see fifty varieti'es from this region. 



Mr. Holnian — I have here a pear which weighs nineteen ounces ; it 

 has not made a history yet . It comes from the country of the Bald 

 Knobbers ; there is only one tree of it and it will never bear again in 

 consequence of an accident, but we can get suckers from its roots ; it is 

 a good cooking and a long keeping pear. It came from Taney County. 



Mr. Goodman — I believe the pear is worthy of cultivation ; it resem- 

 bles the new Idaho pear which has sprung into note recently ; if it is a 

 good keeper, we can make some money out of it. I believe we will find 

 some apple in southwest Missouri that will be THE apple for this western 

 country. The Howell and the Minkler, all belong to the same family- 

 I am satisfied that the Minkler and its seedlings are the best we can 

 grow in south Missouri. The Ben Davis is producing a family ; here is 

 one of them, the Paris, first shown by Mr. Ambrose, sent from Paris, 

 Missouri. Keep watch of every good seedling you find in south or north 



