98 Mifisissippi Valley Horticultural Society. 



Boston, December 18, 1882. 

 My Bear Sir : 



Your favor of the 7th came to hand a week ago, and was communicated to the 

 Society at the meeting last Saturday. Mr. Wilder spoke of the meeting to which 

 you kindly invite the members of the Society, as giving unusual promise of a good 

 time, both horticulturally and socially, and it was voted that the Secretary return 

 the thanks of the Society for the invitation. 



So much for the official part; but I can not omit to thank you for your very 

 kind invitation to myself particularly. No doubt you are right in thinking it 

 would prove a pleasant vacation, and that a vacation would not hurt flie. I do 

 wish I could go with you and attend your meeting; but here I am, in the busiest 

 part of the year — from the 1st of December to the 1st of April is when the heaviest 

 pressure of work comes on me, and I do not see how I can possibly get away. * * * 



Yours truly, 



Egbert Manning, 



Sec. Mat's. Hort. Soc. 



And here I have a letter from a most indefatigable horticultural 

 worker — Prof. J. L. Budd, of the Iowa Agricultural College. 

 Prof. Budd has done more than any other man to introduce such 

 European fruits as seem likely to endure the extreme vicissitudes 

 of your northwestern climate. The Professor has but just returned 

 from a long jouruey through Eastern Europe and Western Asia in 

 search of valuable new fruits for the West. 



Ames, Iowa, December 1, 1882. 

 3fy Dear Sir: 



Your kind letter at hand. •■■ * * I would like to talk about Russian fruits, 

 even so far South as New Orleans, as my observation in the hottest portions of Eu- 

 rope and the United States convince me that the thick foliage apples and pears of 

 Eastern Russia and Central Asia bear summer heat better than the South of Europe 

 fruits. But I will have to defer this to a more convenient season, for which I am 

 sorry. . Yours with respect, 



J. L. Budd. 



And here I have a note from one of the busiest men in the coun- 

 try, who, both through his newspaper and his experimental farm 

 and gardens, is doing so much for rural interests — Mr. Carman, ed- 

 itor of the Rural Neio Yorker. 



New York, December 10, 1882. 

 Afy Respected Sir : 



Nothing would delight me more. How I wish I could be with you ! We shall 



have a representative, I think, and give a good report. All should feel indebted 



to you for your enterprise. With heartiest, best wishes, 



E. S. Carman. 



