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The condition of these county displays will depend upon the fruit 



men of the State, especially during this hot weather. All of the cold 



storage fruit has been put upon the tables, and all know how short a 



tioae it lasts. As the fruits ripens and get better color, we can replace 



all this fruit with better. The Society is receiving deserved praise for 



undertaking such a display and keeping it up for so long. All honor 



therefore, to our members and fruii-men, who so nobly uphold the 



cause of our State. 



L. A. Goodman, Secretary. 



OUR FRUIT SHOW. 



Editor Rural World — Since my last communication our fruit show 

 has been improving more and more each day. While we have not 

 extended the scope of the display for want of room, yet we have been 

 renewing the specimens with better and more mature ones that show 

 the characteristics of each variety to perfection. Such splendid speci- 

 mens of Winesap, Jonathan, Grimes' Golden, Willow Twig, Rome 

 Beauty, Monmoth Pippin, Bellflower, Huntsman, Lad^finger, Nonsuch, 

 and a hundred others, and are seen each day upon our tables. There 

 have been added to our display exhibits from Cooper county, Wright 

 county, Stone county and Christian county, making 42 counties thus 

 far heard from. At gathering time, now, is the time to send in your 

 best colored and most perfect specimens to make the best showing. 



L. A. Goodman, Sec'y. 



MISSOURI FRUIT SHOW. 



The display of fruit at the St. Louis Exposition is, as the Rural 

 World predicted it would be, one of the finest State shows ever made 

 on the American continent. It is fine in quality, full in variety, and as 

 a complete whole is simply magnificent. True, the season here has 

 been almost perfect ; equally true is it that the trees were in the best 

 possible condition for fruitage ; and' with the facilities afforded by the 

 refrigerators the early fruits have been so kept as to be in excellent 

 condition to show alongside of the larger and finer later varieties. But 

 very few plums, peaches or grapes are exhibited ; but the show of pears 

 is good, both in quality and variety, and that of apples simply superb. 



The fragrance of the fruit captures the olfactories the moment one 

 commences to ascend the stairs, and on the floor of the room on which 

 it is shown it is dispensed nearly through the entire space, thus invit- 



