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homes of the common people and, we may say, of every 
body who has room for a few trees. While the city will © 
very easily take care of its own improvements, this art, 
this branch of horticulture, is to be introduced and de- 
veloped amongst the masses of the people themselves. 
And it is with this object in view that I have worked for 
many years, and to accomplish which I have used every 
effort as far as was in my feeble power. 
The Chairman; Many friends of horticulture from our 
own vicinity and from a distance have written kind and ap- 
preciative letters expressing regret at inability to meet 
with us this evening. Time permits me to present but a 
few of those which I have received. 
FROM THE BISHOP OF MISSOURI. 
WHITEHALL, ILL., October 2, 1890. 
My Dear Prof. Trelease: 
I have the invitation to the banquet to “ Florists, Nurserymen and 
Gardeners,’’ to be given on the 13th inst. I greatly regret that I must 
be in Toledo, Ohio, that day. I would much like to be present with 
you all at the banquet. 
It is a well-earned joy that the workers among flowers and plants and 
trees can be enabled to sit down together for a few hours of most pleas- 
ant and social converse. The touch of kind-heartedness manifested in 
this direction of Mr. Shaw’s bounty gratifies me exceedingly. 
I wish I could be with you. Will you kindly say my regrets and my 
warmest wishes for a pleasant gathering to all there assembled. 
Faithfully yours, 
DaniEL S. Tutte. 
FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
HORTICULTURAL HALL, Boston, Oct. 2, 1890. 
Dear Sir: Your kind invitation to the First Annual Banquet to Florists, 
Nurserymen and Gardeners, instituted by Henry Shaw, was duly re- 
ceived, and I return you hearty thanks therefor, not only on my own ac- 
count, but in behalf of this society, for I presume that the invitation was 
sent to me not merely as an individual but as a representative of the so- 
ciety. I wish it were in my power to accept the invitation, for it would 
give me great pleasure to join with you in the institution of what I 
trust will be a long series of pleasant and profitable meetings, and in 
