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should be two sets of prizes, a professional list and an amatuer list. I 

 remember a show at Kansas City in which some grapes fastened to the 

 vine with J&ne copper wire elicited much admiration. I am the only 

 individual left who helped to organize the first horticultural society 

 west of the Allegheny Mountiaus. I have been engaged in these fruit 

 shows and have found that art in the arrangement goes a long way. 

 I am pleased with the idea of plating the flowers with the fruits, and 

 I would enlist the ladies. They have a taste that men do not. They 

 are very successful in getting up a display. 



31r. Lionherge) — Last fall we took a notion to exhibit at the Mont- 

 gomery fair. We had always had plenty flowers there, but the fruits 

 had to be put in corners and out of the way places that looked like 

 hog troughs. We wanted more room but they could not give it to us, 

 so we made no exhibit. 



At the close of the discussion the society adjourned until 2 p. m. 



WEDNESDAY, TWO P. M. 



Called to order by the President. 



Mr. Geo. Hussman, of iSTapa, Cal., being present, he was introduced 

 to the society and he entertained the society with a few remarks about 

 California. 



QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LAWYER ANSWERED. 



Mr. BurTi-es — The Lawver blights, bears poorly and scabs badly. 



Mr. Evans — At first the Lawver was one of the finest apples I ever 

 saw. It is supposed to be a seedling of the McAfee, which has also 

 done badly of late years. I watched the Lawver for twelve years in 

 succession, and during that time it did not fail to have a crop ; to-day 

 is worthless. 



