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summer these slips came from the government, and my foreman told me 

 they did not amount to anything, but I got a little slip one day and it 

 stated that the berry should be pruned soon after the bearing, and there 

 were two prunings, so I thought it would be a good thing to do to cut 

 them down 18 inches to two feet. I had a blackberry vine 14 feet long, 

 and I thought it was pretty nearly like slaughvering it, but I had the 

 courage to go and cut oft" all but three feet of it; that was quite a little 

 time after the terries had been ripe though. The result was that I have 

 some beautiful vines there, and they have grown from six inches to two 

 feet, and it looked to me as if this irimming at that time v/as going to 

 give me some fruit. I do not know how I am coming out but your speak- 

 ing about the time of trimming, that one time would make wood, and 

 the next time would make fruit, struck me as about the best I have yet 

 heard. In regard to the nuts, I have been using considerable dynamite. 

 I am blowing out all the old peach trees, and making holes about four or 

 five feet deep, and five feet wide, and I iiave been catching all the water 

 and snow, and I will set out nut trees the next year. I want to thank you 

 gentlemen for the information you have given me, and for your indul- 

 gence in listening to me for what I have had to say. 



It now being 5 o'clock p.m., January 22, 1913, the meeting of the 

 society adjourned until 9 o'clock the following morning, to lake up the 

 program arranged for that time. 



FORENOON SESSION. 



9:30 a.m., January 23d. 



The meeting of the society convened, pursuant to adjournment, and 

 the following proceedings were had and done. 



The meeting will now come to order, and we will hear the first 

 number on the program, a paper by E. H. Herminghaus of Lincoln on 

 "The Missouri Botanical Garden."' 



THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



E. H. Herminghaus, Lincoln. 



The Missouri Botanical Garden, popularly known as Shaw's 

 Garden, owes its origin, development, and permanent endowment 

 to the love of plants of the late Henry Sha^v, a native of England 

 and a benefactor of America. Its purpose is to afford restful recreation, 

 education, and productive research. To accomplish this end, the garden 

 has always been open to the public. Even from the outset, when it wat? 

 a private estate, the public was premitted to share m the refining influ- 

 ence of flowers. The garden is open on week days from 7 in the morniru; 

 until sunset and upon Sundays from May 1st until November 1st, from 

 2:00 p.m. until sunset. The garden iu closed only on holidays. Another 



