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can use it ; you can see that it does not exclude either light or air. Let 

 me know what you think of it. Our county society has been dormant 

 for some time, but I am in hopes it is about to awaken up now and dO' 

 something; we have a meeting appointed for the 7tli inst. 



Yours truly, 



M. G. CONDO^S^, 

 President of the Henry County Horticultural Society^ 



WEDNESDAY, 9 A. M. 



Meeting called to order by the President, and the regular order 

 taken up. 



KEPORT ON ORCHARDS. 



BY D. S. HOLMAN, SPRINGFIELD, MO. 



Officers and Memhers Missouri horticultural Society : 



As one of your committee, I am again expected to report some- 

 thing of the yield, growth and condition of our orchard in the southern 

 portion of the State. 



Our prospects for an apple crop, as reported to you at Louisiana 

 in June, have been realized pretty generally in that quarter — in Greene 

 county. I think I may say we had a yield of 80 to 90 per cent, in quan- 

 tity and the quality was very much better than last year. The devel- 

 opment of full size of late varieties was perhaps prevented to some 

 extent by drouth which came to the country generally in the latter 

 part of summer, but even this was not very hurtful, as they ripened 

 better for winter keeping, than had autumn rains prevailed. 



