160 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTRAL SOCIETY. 



HOW SHALL WE GROW THEM? 



Select good and suitable varieties. 



Plant none but sound trees. 



Plant tbein carefully. 



Give them plenty of room, so tree and fruit will have sufficient air 

 and sunshine. 



Prune, cultivate and feed them. 



Fight the codling moth. 



Visit the orchards of our most successful fruit raisers at the time 

 of their harvest. 



Join our horticultural societies; attend their meetings; learn all 

 you can, and put it in practice; 



Labor diligently and wait patiently, and in due time you will reap 

 the grandest of all harvests — rich, beautiful fruits, that will repay you, 

 in both pleasure and profit, for all you have invested. 



WHERE SHALL WE PLANT OUR ORCHARDS, AjS^D WHAT 

 SHALL WE DO WITH THE OLD ONES. 



BY J. A. DURKES, WESTON, MO. 



On yonder hills, where the primeval woods, 



Form a barrier to coid winter's blast, 



Those hills, whose shelving rocks o'erhang 



The flowing stream, from wlience cool dews and vapors mild 



Arise, and nourish plant and tree and flower) 



Here, let our orchards planted be, and here 



Will our Pearmain's crimson, and our Pippins blush 



With rip'ning fragrance 'neath October's sun. 



— Axox. 



The improvement upon the adaptability of all our standard fruits 

 to difl'erent sites and soils for untold ages has been the study of man, 

 and to-day we see how kindly they have yielded to all the varied arts 



