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HORTICULTURAL.
The Mississippi Valley Horticultural socie-
tyMseting at Kansas Chy-Officers Elect
ed and Other Business Transacted.


ed and Other Business Transacted.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan %.
The Mississippi Valley Horticultural So
ciety reconvened this morning at ten
o'clock, many delegates arriving by the
early trains from the Middle and Northern
States. Over two hundred delegates are
now present from twenty States, three be-
ing from Connecticut. The display of fruit
is very fine. In addition to the horticultu-
raj display proper, there are on exhibition
various specimens of wood indigenous to
the different soils lying between the Allan
tic and Pacific slope. One of the specimens
is a small slab cut out of an Usage orange
tree which was reported to have had
growth OF three hundred years and to have
| Ian buried upwSSrd of two centuries.
The first paper this morning was by Mr..
Dinner, of Dayton, o., on the culture of
| taspberries, after which irrigation and
| Embarrassing in Colorado was discussed, ID.
| >. Grimes, of Denver, leading. At the af-
! ternoon session Colonel ID. 5. Twitchell
| welcomed the visitors on behalf of the city,
| and the annual address was delivered by
| President Earle, of Cobden, I'll. Ex-Gov-
| ernor Moo ton, of Nebraska, alluded to the
| death of DR.. Warder, well-kuown horti-
| culturist of North Bend, o., and a resolu-
ton of respect was adopted by the Associ-
| alton.
AT the evening session Oliver Gibbs, of
| Minnesota, read a paper on the future of
| fruit.growing in America, and was fol-
| lowed by Ex-Governor Furnas, of Nebras-
| ka, on Forestry on the Pacific Coast"
! The meetings are largely attended, and
| more delegates are arriving by every train.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. "a.
| The most important business transacted
| by the Mississippi Valley Horticultural
Society to-day was the election of officers
| for the ensuing year as follows: Presi dent,
| Parker Earle, Golden, ILL.,; Vice President,
f. H. Hudson, New Orleans, La; Secre-
tary, w. H. Reagan, Indianapolis, Ind;
| Treasurer, j. G. Evans, Harlem, Mo. State
| Vice.Presidents: N. Dinner, Dayton, o.;
| j. l.. Lyon, South Haven, Mich; Z. Y.
| Teas, Dunreith, Ind; Prof. t. j. Burrill,
Champaign, Ill; George 2. PETER, Pewau.
kee, Wis; NJ. Pearce, Minneapolis, Mimi;
Neb.; Prof. E. A. Popenoe, Manhattan,
Kas.; D. S. Grimes, Denver, Col; Prof. j.
L. Budd, Ames, Iowa; l.. H. Nolan, Little
Rock Ark; V. Munson, DenisOn, Tex;
lege, Mo; DR.. Chas., Meier Mobile,
Ala; Elisha Moody, Lockport, N. Y; Z.
| II. Hart, Federal Point, Fla.; A. ID. Webb,
Bowling Green, Ky; 5. Raglan, Independ-
ence, Mo-. DR.. Samuel Hape, Atlanta, Ca.
| A. w. Campbell, Wheeling, w. Va.
| During the afternoon and evening SEES.
| sion interesting papers were read, as fol-
| lows: "Market Fruits of Kansas City,"
| by L.. A. Goodman, of West Port; "Best
| Fruit Packages" by E. I. Hollister, of st.
Louis; "The Value of Careful Packing and
Handling" by Z. H. Williams, of Indian
| apolis, Ind.
| The Committee on Nomenclature, consist
| ing of Messrs. Sylvester Johnson, T. E. j.
Burrill, L.. b. Pierce, j. II. Hale and j. ii.
| Mesters, submitted the following report,
| which was adopted:
| Your Committee on Nomenclature beg
leave to report that we indorse the recon-
mendations made by Hon. Marshall T..
| Wilder, President of the American Promo
| logical Society, as well as those of our
| President, MIR. Earle, looking to simplifi
| cation and uniformity of the names of the
fruits of America, and recommend the fol-
| lowing rules ho-wit:
/. Every fruit should have one, and but one,
2. If tenable, this name should be the earli
est one published as hereinafter provided
| 3. Each name should consist of one word,
and for all new American fruits such word
should be readily pronouncable in the English
| language.
A. Nonamc should be considered authorized
| until published in some reputable and gener-
| ally accessible horticultural periodical, accom-
| panied with clear and full description of the
fruit; such published name and description
| shall be sent to the Secretary of the American
chronological Society and 10 the Secretary of
| the Missouri Valley Horticultural Society,
| 3. In case of doubt as to tCnability, priority
| or authority of publication appropriateness
as good English word, special action by the
| above named societies, or bya state Horticu-
| tural Society should be considered valid and
| final.
| 6. No variety of fruit shall be named by a
society which is not esteemed practically valu-
| able and worthy of cultivation; this report to
be considered as Recommendation TO the
| American Promological Society.
| The Committee ON the horticultural Ex-
| hibition at the Worlds Fair in New Or
leans next December made a report;
| first, approving of the exhibition and
| of the action of President Earl III the mat
| ter second. recommending that the Gov
| ernors of States be requested to appoint
| commissioners to aid the scheme; third,
that it be made known that all appoint
ments must be made before February 10;
fourth, that all States be asked to place
their products on exhibition; fifth, that
genealogical organizations be informed that
the earlier varieties of fruit can be carried;
| sixth, that a general meeting of the direc-
tors and commissioners he held as soon as
possible; seventh, that the States be asked
TO vote aid to the exhibition; eighth, that
the States wanting emigration he especl-
ally urged to advertise their States by
sending their products to the exhibition. A
| Comparison was instituted between Kansas
and Minnesota at the Centennial EXhibi-
tien. The former spent $4,000, the latter
nothing, and in four years after, the popu-
lation of Kansas had increased 5O3,O55; of
Minnesota, 1S3, SOC; the wealth of Kansas,
Sl2O,0OO,OOO; Minnesota, S%2,OO0,0OO. The
report was adopted as read.
| / AT the session on Friday the Committee
on Forestry proposed resolution, which
was adopted, calling upon the Government
to establish in the West experimental sta
tions in the interest of horticulture and for
estry, for the purpose of solving the prob
lem of adaptation of trees and plants to the
climate and soils of the Mississippi basin
and tho best methods of cultivation. The
resolution further recommends the creation
of Board of Forestry and Horticulture in
the West, which shall establish sub-stations
at each climatic belt; that agents be sent
to foreign countries having similar climates
to obtain seeds and recipes for the propa-
CATION here, naming especially Russia and
China; that the President of the Society APP
! point committee to frame a bill for sub
| mission to COnpraSS amhOdVinV the ahoya