60 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



will require severe thinning. Everything hereabout two weeks earlier 

 than last year. 



Yours truly, 



T. T. LYON. 



Lenox, Ia., June 2d, 1886. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman : 



Dear Sir — Your circular at hand. I would very much enjoy 

 meeiing- with Missouri horticulturists at Louisiana, Mo., on the 8th and 

 9th. My meeting with your society at Warrensburg last winter will 

 long be remembered by me, and I shall continue to hold pleasant re- 

 membrances of the membership of your society. The great distance, 

 time and expense required to attend your coming meeting deters me 

 from attending. 



This is a busy time for Iowa horticulturists, with strawberries giv- 

 ing us full picking at least two weeks earlier than ever before. 



I would write more, but realizing you must be busy preparing for 

 meeting I desist. 



With kindest regards for you and Missouri horticulturists, I am, 



Yours truly, 



GEO. VAX HOUTEX. 



EEPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OX STOXE FEUITS. 



3Ir. Madinger — The plum crop promises good and we have a good 

 crop of cherries, even of the sweet ones. 



Mr. IJalton — I have some Wild Goose trees and the prospects are 

 for a very fair crop and fine specimens of the fruit. In my locality the 

 plum crop gives promise of being quite abundant, not only of Wild 

 Goose but other varieties which I have examined. I am somewhat 

 enthusiastic on the plum. I have 700 to 1,000 trees fruiting. So far 

 as my experience goes my Wild Goose, eight years planted, have been 

 very productive since the third year after planting. The curculio is 

 very bad. To the Wild Goose it has done little damage, to other va- 

 rieties it is very destructive. I have been trying to protect other va- 

 rieties by methods of my own. I have had some good results. I hang 



