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without distinction of sex or color, ^yhether they were landowners or 

 not. And if you should find in the remotest spot of this earth, in the 

 front yard of a cabin, a rose bush or fruit tree, you'll be sure that there 

 lives a civilized man in it. 



What a tempting- thing is an apple or any other kind of fruit to a 

 boy and even a girl ? They will walk for miles and risk honor and 

 reputation in the attempt to obtain it. 



The apple is destined to be the most widely distributed over this 

 globe, and it is known as the fairest civilizer. Only a small streak 

 of land in this country is known where the apple grows to per- 

 fection, and our great State of Missouri is fortunately located in this 

 favored belt. Hence every owner of a spot of land should use the op- 

 portunity of planting the apple tree and raise the best kind offruitj 

 and be a promoter in civilizing the human race. 



Le us be aware that it is a noble work we have engaged in, the art 

 to raise, culture and improve fruit, vegetables and flowers to the 

 highest perfection and we may rest aysured to have done our part in 

 placing horticulture in the first rank of civilization. 



DISCUSSION ON EXHIBITION OF FRUITS. 



Mr. Madinger — We ought to show our fruit in two ways : some for 

 quality, some for show. We should show in groups so that the differ- 

 ent varieties may be compared or contrasted. When shown for quality, 

 each quality should be shown by itself. 



Mr. Goodman — The best way to show for the horticulturist is not 

 the best for outside people. You may take the same twenty varieties, 

 put them on plates on a table and also display them and they will say 

 the latter way is the best show. Horticulturists want only the best 

 varieties on plates correctly labeled, on broad fiat tables. Mr. Mad- 

 inger has made some very fine displays at St. Joseph. 



Mr. Madinger — I once took it into my head to have a vase four 

 feet square at the base and seven and a half feet high. An architect 

 wanted seventy-five dollars for making it, but I went to work and made 

 one for two dollars and a half, and decorated it with apples. 



Mr. Goodman — Why can not w^ mingle our flowers and plants 

 with our fruits when we show them? Cannot horticulture and floricul- 

 ture be united — alternate groups of apples and flowers ? 



Mr. Durlces — Apples for a collection might be grouped in a pyra- 

 midal form with a vase of flowers or ferns at the top. 



Mr. Bagan — I want to advocate the interests of the common peo- 

 ple against the professional class at the national and state fairs. There 



