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able and interesting meeting as we have had this evening. "We are 

 certainly progressing finely. We are having a very rich session to- 

 day, and I hope it will be even better to-morrow and Saturday. 

 Adjourned to meet at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. 



Third Day— Friday. 



Forenoon Session, February 23. 



At half past nine o'clock a. m. the Society was called to order by 

 President Earle. 



Pending the report of the Committee on Nominations, which, 

 according to programme, was the first thing in order, President 

 Earle read the following letters, saying : I will embrace this oppor- 

 tunity of reading to the Society certain letters from distinguished 

 friends of the Society and from members who found it impossible 

 to be present. The first letters I will read you are from the Hon. 

 Marshall P. Wilder, of Boston, President of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society. The name of our venerable friend is one blessed 

 and reverenced by all horticulturists the world over, and should 

 never be mentioned in a horticultural assembly w^ithout applause. 

 (Very hearty applause.) 



Dorchester, Mass., December 11, 1882. 

 3Ty Valued Friend : 



Thanks for your circulars and kind letter. How I wish I could go with you to 

 New Orleans; but at my time of life it would be too dangerous. I must husband 

 ■my strength so as to make it hold out as long as possible. • You will have a grand 

 time, and do your country great good yet. Let your Society and the old American 

 Pomological Society go along arm-in-arm together in the good cause, and poster- 

 ity will rise up and bless the men who founded them and are carrying them on for 

 the public good. 



Please have a large delegation appointed to the American Pomological Society, 

 at Philadelphia, September 12, 13, 14, 1883. 



As ever, yours, Marshall P. Wilder. 



Dorchester, Mass., January 30, 1883. 

 My Good Friend : 



I still live and keep up my official relations, but dare not go from home at this 



season of the vear. O, how I wish I could be with vou and our friends at New 



