294 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Every lover of flowers (and who is not!) and every lover of colors, 

 which are at once the most brilliant, the most delicate and the most 

 beautiful, should possess a good collection of gladioli. When cost,, 

 ease of cultivation and sure and magnificent results accomplished are 

 considered, there is no flower that equals the gladiolus, and it is with 

 the utmost confidence, therefore, that I recommend it to all. 



Z. T. EussELL, Carthage. 



Apple Market Future. 



All speculations in the future must necessarily be more or less 

 uncertain. Everything seems to be subject to changes on account of 

 existing conditions, demands, supplies and competition. 



In this progressive and inventive age changes come fast, and im- 

 provements of methods and quality of goods compete for supremacy 

 in all markets of the world. While this is especially true in every- 

 thing directly affected by the inventive genius, it is less noticeable in 

 the staple food products. 



Corn, wheat and rye were used for bread thousands of years ago, 

 and are still used. Fruits of all sorts have also been, and are now, 

 and will for all time to come be used. Centuries will come and go, and 

 the same demand will exist, only in a greater degree, according to the 

 advancement of civilization. 



Orchards must, therefore, be planted, and wholesome fruit gath- 

 ered and sold with much pleasure and profit ; and the apple, "the king 

 of all fruit," will continue, as it has in the past, to occupy the front 

 rank on the markets as the most important of all fruits. 



This is no fancy sketch or a theory, but a well settled fact. It is, 

 therefore, not a question of "will there be a market and demand for 

 apples in the future," but how we will reach and supply this market 

 and ever growing demand in the most practical and economical way. 



But it will be said that we are now overproducing apples, as proven 

 by the low prices and glutted market of the past season, and with all 

 the thousands of acres of new orchards coming in yearly "what will 

 the future be f 



It is true that the apple crop of '95, when viewed all over the 

 land, was a very large one, and for low prices and glutted markets, had 

 no equal for many years. And yet what are the facts as we find them 

 today? Good apples are in demand (not at fancy), but at fair prices,, 

 and thousands of families, even in apple-growing sections of this and 

 other states, have not an apple laid in for winter. 



