PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Fifth Annual Meeting 



OF THE 



MISSISSIPPI VALLEY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Of the fifth annual meeting of the Mississippi Valley Horticul- 

 tural Society, held in Kansas City, Missouri, January 22, 23, 24, 

 and 25, 1884, the Prairie Farmer says : 



"The personnel of this body was excellent; it was a convention of practi- 

 cal, brainy men, alive to the interests of one of the most important pursuits 

 in range of the rural industries. The essays, and the discussions they pro- 

 voked, were full of interest, and highly instructive. We have attended scores 

 of such assemblies during the last quarter of a century ; none of them equaled 

 this, all things" considered, and we think this opinion was shared by the old- 

 est and most prominent among those in attendance." 



A similar high compliment is bestowed by that veteran agricul- 

 tural journal of the West, Colman's Rural World, in the following 

 brief extract : 



"We have, during the last third of a century, attended many horticultural 

 meetings, but have never attended so good a one as th:it which was hold at 

 Kansas City last week." 



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