2o8 MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL RKPORT. 



country. All around were the tables, jars and plates, ladencd with the 

 best the State can produce. 



/ 'arictics. — "Oil tables, in glass jars, cases and on specially de- 

 signed plaies, Missouri's display of fruit occupied this large space. 

 Every inch of space was filled with the finest fruit. Nearly two 

 hundred varieties of apples were shown and for nearly five months 

 fresh apples were daily upon the tables, while apples from cold 

 storage were shown for the entire seven months of the exposition 

 period. Five hundred bushels of apples were given away on Apple 

 Day, October 4. Seventy-two varieties of apples were shown, with 

 fresh peaches on the tables daily from June 15 to December i. Over 

 sixty bushels of different varieties were exhibited at one time an un- 

 exampled picture. On August 15, Peach Day, five hundred bushels, 

 a full car load, were distributed to visitors. Two thousand plates of 

 pears, of forty-eight varieties were shown from August to December 

 I. Among the other fruits shown were one thousand plates of grapes 

 with 124 varieties, one thousand plates of strawberries with sixty- 

 four varieties, five hundred plates of cherries with twenty-four varie- 

 ties, four hundred plates of plums with thirty-two varieties, sixty 

 plates of apricots with six varieties, twenty plates of nectarines with 

 two varieties, one hundred and sixty plates of quinces with six varie- 

 ties, three hundred plates of gooseberries with eight varieties, one 

 hundred plates of currants with six varieties, two hundred plates of 

 raspberries with twenty-four varieties, three hundred plates of black- 

 berries with eight varieties, one hundred plates of dewberries witji 

 two varieties, twenty-four plates of mulberries with four varieties, one 

 hundred and twenty plates of huckleberries with two varieties, one 

 hundred plates of persimmons, pawpaws, crab apples and thorn apples 

 with eighteen varieties. Ten show cases of Missouri nuts, illustrating- 

 forty-eight varieties. There were two thousand four hundred jars 

 of fruit in solution, illustrating four hundred and thirty varieties. 

 Altogether six hundred and ninety-four varieties of fresh fruits were 

 shown, a display unequaled b}- any state or country. Out of the one 

 hundred and fourteen counties of Missouri, ninety-six were actually 

 represented by fruit. The Missouri Horticultural Society, the inJi- 

 vidual fruit grower and horticultural department of the Missouri 

 Agricultural College contributed materially to the sources of the 

 exhi])it. The exhibit was beautifully displayed and was especially 

 popular. On lis educational side it taught the adaptability of varie- 

 ties to particular localities, the value of soils and subsoils, elevation, 

 cultivation, pruning and spraying, packing and marketing and cold 

 storage, and various points which confront every fruit grower." 



