LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 



To His Excellency, Jeremiah M. Rusk, 



Governor of the State of Wisconsin. 

 Sir: In compliance with law, I have the honor to trans- 

 mit to you the seventeenth volume of the transactions of 

 the State Horticultural Society, including a full statement 

 of the receipts and expenditures of the Society, together 

 with the papers read at its meetings in 1886-7, and such 

 other matter as has been deemed likely to promote the hor- 

 ticultural interests of the state. 



Very respectfully, 



H. C. ADAMS, 



Secretary. 



