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ing the attention of visitors to one of the most characteristic displays 

 of purely Missouri products in the entire Exposition. 



The counties making displays are duly named by large cards a foot 

 long, so that each has credit for what it has done, and as well for what 

 it is capable of doing in the production of fruit. These are Buchanan. 

 Lafayette, DeKalb, Platte, Holt, Howard, Miller, Jackson, Clay. St, 

 Louis, Franklin, Wayne, Putnam and Laclede. Others will, in all 

 probability, be added as the days pass ; but those who are backward 

 are losing the good that may be done them by advertising themselves 

 to the ten or twenty thousands of people who daily throng the naves 

 of the great building. 



It would be invidious at this time to make comparisons as to which 

 counties have the largest exhibits, the greatest varieties, or the finest 

 fruits. Of course, one cannot hflp noticing these as he stops in front 

 of each ; but some are better able than others, some better prepared, 

 whilst some others have a lack of enterprising men willing to under- 

 take the labor and expense of gathering the fruit and sending it for 

 exhibition. These will all be made known in time, and the best will 

 insure highest results. 



Mr. L. A. Goodman, Secretary, and Hon. N. F. Murray, Vice-Pres- 

 ident, are in charge, both of them thoroughly conversant with the fruit- 

 growing interests of the State, and largely identified therewith ; they 

 are, therefore, fully qualified to give to strangers and visitors all the 

 information they ask for, and to speak for the State generally. — Col- 

 man's Rural World. 



The Show of Missouri Fruits. 



The exhibition of one of the most successful displays of fruit 

 which the Missouri State Horticultural Society ever made was brought 

 to an end on Saturday night last, when the St. Louis Exposition closed 

 its doors, after a successful run of 40 days. The fruit show far ex- 

 ceeded that of last year in quantity, size, number of varieties, perfect- 

 ness of specimens, color, condition and quality. I believe that no 

 other room in the entire building was more attractive to the general 

 public, and to fruitgrowers and buyers particularly, than the horticul- 

 tural room, except, perhaps, the art gallery. 



We have had on exhibition nearly all the varieties of apples that 

 are grown in this State, from the earliest of the Yellow Transparent 

 to the Little Romanite, making a long list of 227 varieties, and afford- 

 ing an object lesson to every one who cared to examine them, and a 



