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exported in a single week. All kinds of apples, except 
soft kinds that will not keep well, are exported. The 
English people, you know, are partial to red, as a color, 
and, as a rule, they’prefer red apples, such as Baldwins? 
Kings, &c. Newtown Pippins were formerly favorite 
apples with the English, but after some unscrupulous 
shippers had foisted upon them a lot of inferior apples, 
falsely branded ‘ Newtown Pippins,’ they did not care for 
them any more. Our crop here will not be more than 
half of an average full crop, being short in most sectio'ns 
and abundant in but few. In July the outlook was good, 
but the prolonged hot and dry weather has materially 
changed the situation. Farmers have an advantage in 
the fact that, on account of fast ships and the cables, they 
can get their money in two weeks from the day of ship¬ 
ment, while formerly they had to wait 25 to 30 days.” 
Mr. Day says; ‘‘The American crop will not be more 
than one-third of a fair average crop. Along the Hudson 
River there is.promise of a good yield, but in the western 
part of the state there will not be this season more than 
one-eighth of an ordinary crop. In that section almost 
all of the apples have fallen to the ground before maturity. 
The cause of the fruit dropping from the trees was the 
prolonged and excessive heat and drought. Some of the 
western states have small crops, and others only fair ones. 
The Canadian crop is pretty good. The freight from here 
to Liverpool is about seventy-five cents a barrel. The 
continental apple crop as a whole, is a complete failure, 
and the apples small and poor. Europe will have to 
depend upon the United States and Canada for her supply. 
The apple market is strong, and higher prices will rule.” 
FRUIT PROSPECTS IN MISSOURI. 
I find the greatest draw-back to the fruit industry in 
Missouri, is the lack of energy in planting and care of 
fruit. It is true, here as elsewhere, we have many insects 
and diseases peculiar to fruit to contend with. When the 
proper remedy and due care is applied we have a success¬ 
ful fruit crop. Take the five points that go to make a 
perfect apple, viz: size, condition, color, quality and flavor 
we find as near perfect here as any place in the United 
States. Plum, pear, cherry, and about one season out of 
three we have from good to fair crops of peaches, while 
the three former are regular fruiters. All small fruits can 
be profitably grown here. Taking this state over I boldly 
say, Missouri can grow as fine and as much fruit as any 
state in the United States. The tree business is greatly 
abused here by dealers cutting on prices, also by making 
orders to get the advanced per cent, from nurserymen. I 
can encourage people to come to Missouri if they intend 
going into the fruit business, as land can be had here from 
$10 to $30 per acre with fair improvements and handy to 
market., I will answer all inqiiiry, with stamp for return 
postage. I am not in the real estate business. 
Marceline, Mo. S. H. LiNTON. 
FROM VARIOUS POINTS. 
William Mathews of Utica, N. Y., gives figures showing 
that the cost of plants, potting and maintaining 200 
Cattleya labiata bought in 1892, was $420, and the receipts 
were $660. He knows of nothing that a florist can hang 
in the roof of a house which will bring so much profit as 
orchids. 
It has been established that in the case of the apple 
crop, spraying will protect from 50 to 92 per cent, of the 
fruit, which would otherwise be wormy, and that in actual 
marketing experience the price has been enhanced from 
$i to $2.50 per barrel, and this is at*a cost of about lO 
cents per tree for labor and material. 
The Stark nurseries at Louisiana, Missouri, are said to 
have been established seventy years ago by Judge James 
Stark, who emigrated from Lexington, Kentucky, to 
Missouri in 1816. The Judge planted the first grafted 
orchard in the latter named state, having carried the scions 
used for that purpose from Kentucky on horseback. 
In the case of large pear trees attacked by leaf blight, 
and almost killed by it, I have seen them completely re¬ 
stored in two or three years by spraying two or three 
times in early spring and summer with the Bordeaux 
mixture. It will certainly pay farmers and fruit growers 
to become thoroughly familiar with this subject before 
spring comes.—Joseph Meehan. 
The Grand Rapids Fruit-Growers’ Association, which 
was organized in the interests of shippers, held its final 
meeting for the season some days ago. After paying all 
bills the association had a small cash balance in the 
treasury. During the year the association doubled its 
membership, comprising now [60 members. It has done 
an excellent work for its members, saving from $2,500 to 
$3,000 in the matter of freight alone, by the reduction 
secured in the rates on peaches. 
J. B. Heiss in a communication to The Florists Ex¬ 
change, adds encouragement to the project for the 
establishment of a national rose society. He advocates 
putting the annual dues at $3 per year and the issuing of 
a monthly journal devoted exclusively to roses, a copy 
to be sent free to each member. Mr. Heiss suggests the 
establishment of a jury to give awards of merit for all 
roses old and new, the discussion of diseases peculiar to 
roses, fertilizers, and the testing of new varieties. 
J. M. Rice, says: I am not an enthusiast in anything, 
so while others are extolling Oklahoma as the coming fruit 
garden of the world, I will simply say that three seasons 
of observation and work suggests to me that much care 
will be needed here as elsewhere. I lived in Iowa thirty 
years and it used to be said, “ This is no fruit country,” 
yet to-day it numbers some of the large orchards of the 
world. But it took many years to learn what was adapted 
in variety and method of culture. A generation of 
eastern trees had to die out, new varieties be secured and 
new methods of planting and culture adopted. 
