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but my heart is with Missouri and her interests, hence my inability to stop until I 

 had at least partly spoken my mind. Wishing you a pleasant and profitable meet- 

 ing, I remain truly yours, B. T. Galloway. 

 Garrett Park, Maryland, December 3, 1892. 



Champaign, III , December 6, 1892. 

 L. A. Goodman, Carthage, Mo. : 



Dear Sir — We regret exceedingly the conflict of dates of our meeting, and at 



a meeting last evening our executive board authorized me to write you, saying 



that our next meeting will be the second Tuesday in December, when we hope 



they will not conflict. Very truly, 



A. C. Hammen, Secretary. 



Chicago, III., December 2, 18G2. 

 To the Missouri State Horticultural Society : 



Gentlemen — I do not know whether it has occurred to you or not that there 

 are a large number of broad-minded horticulturists in the West who are interested 

 in the doings of the fruit-growers in more than one State, and who would, if pos- 

 sible, attend the meetings of a number of the State Horticultural Societies. By 

 the practice in vogue, however, for the last few years, it has been next to impos- 

 sible for any one to attend the meetings of the State Horticultural Societies of a 

 number of contiguous States. To illustrate the point in question : the Missouri, the 

 Kansas, the Illinois, Indiana and the Northern Iowa Horticultural Societies* meet- 

 ings are all held in the week December 5-9, and the Minnesota and the Nebraska 

 meetings are both held in the week December 10-13 I do not know whether this 

 is a mere coincidence, or whether the constitutions of the various Societies neces- 

 sitate the meetings being held at the same time. 



As you are perhaps aware, the secretaries of the various large fairs have an 

 association which meets after the fair season of one year, in which they decide 

 upon circuits, so that the States which are near to each other will not have their 

 fairs so that they conflict. Of course there are one or two exceptions to this, but 

 as a rule the plan has worked very successfully. Why would it not be a good idea 

 for the horticulturists to follow some such similar plan ? If such were done, those 

 who so desire it could attend a number of the meetings, which this year is impossi- 

 ble. It would be a very natural thing for an Illinoisan to desire to attend the 

 Indiana State meeting, or vice versa,, and the same is true of Kansas and Missouri ; 

 but this year the four meetings all come in the same week. 



I write this mostly with the idea in view that it would be best for the horti- 

 culturists themselves to have some arrangement, and secondarily because from a 

 personal motive, which I know is shared by a number of the newspaper men. I 

 personally should like to be present at all of the meetings of the State Horticul- 

 tural Societies, but it is simply impossible to be in four places at once, and I know 

 that a number of other newspaper men feel the same way, and while this is stated 

 as a secondary reason, it seems to me that it has some importance, because I 

 think every one will acknowledge that the practical benefit derived from the 

 meeting of any Society is much enlarged by means of the reports published in the 

 various newspapers. 



