122 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I have the report issued by your State for 18S9 and 1890, and I see that "Poor 

 Old Missouri" is yet young. Your State has done wonders during the last few- 

 years. I spent some twelve months in Missouri, and am sorry I ever left it. I send 

 you copies of Oregon Board reports. 



With an apology for troubling you, 1 am. Yours faithfully, 



L. A. Goodman, Esq. C. H. Godfery. 



St. Louis, Mo., December 6, 1892. 

 L. A. Goodman, Secretary Missouri State Horticultural Society^ Carthage, Mo.: 



My Dear Sir — A very important meeting of the Florists' Club for Thursday,. 

 Dec. 8, makes it impossible for me to attend the meeting as I had promised you. 

 I enclose my paper herein, and if you will have some one kind enough to read it, I 

 will be very much obliged. 



Mr. Duffey of the botanical gardens had promised to do it for me, but it is xaj 

 sad duty to announce his death just last Saturday, from heart failure. He was in 

 perfect health only about a week before the fatal stroke, when he was taken down 

 with typhoid fever. I know that he was connected several times with your meet- 

 ings, and that you will feel with the St. Louis florists the sore loss in his death. 



Again regretting that it is impossible for me to be with you, and wishing you 

 a most prosperous meeting, I am, 



Y'ours very truly , 



E. H. Michel » 



Galveston, Texas, December 5, 1892. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, Carthage, Mo.: 



My Dear Sir— I expected to attend your meeting, but it now seems 1 shall 

 not return to Missouri in time. I regret this very much, especially because at this 

 meeting business concerning making a good exhibit at the World's Fair will come 

 up, and 1 feel very much interested in making a good, big fruit show. 



However, I hope the meeting will be well attended, and as we have so many 

 good horticulturists among our number, I feel that this matter will not be over- 

 looked. 



If I can be of service, command me at any time. I hope we may have a good, 

 big apple crop in '93, and I hope to handle them larger than ever, and a good apple 

 crop will help us in Missouri's fruit show. Kegards to you and all. 



Y'ours truly, 



Chas. C. Bell. 



The weather is fine here. I was in Hitchcock yesterday. You will remember 

 our friend Stringfellow. I wish you could see the roses in bloom, etc. B. 



St. Louis, Mo. December 6, 1892. 

 L. A. Goodman, Esq., Sec'y, Carthage, Mo]: 



Dear Sir— I enclose one dollar, which please place to my credit on account of 

 dues. I regret very much my inability to attend this meeting, as I have always 

 derived great pleasure and accumulated a great deal of valuable information upon 

 every such occasion. 



Especially would I have been glad to have been able to attend this meeting,, 

 as it is held in the very midst of the apple garden of the world, where the subject 

 of the apple, the king of all fruits, can be discussed with more practical knowledge 

 than elsewhere. 



