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<;ulture, apple culture and best varieties, peach culture and best varieties, pear 

 culture and blight. President J. C. Evans gave his experience in the culture, 

 gathering, packing and shipping of fruit. A splendid display of apples was exhib- 

 ited. The following officers were elected for the following year : President, N. J. 

 Colman, St. Louis; Secretary, D. L. Hall, Kansas City; Treasurer, J. C. Evans, 

 Harlem ; and 13 Vice-Presidents, one for each Congressional district, and Jefferson 

 City was selected as the next place of meeting. We now have a record of every 

 annual meeting held by this Society since its organization in 1859. 



SOME ERRORS CORRECTED. 



At the 30th annual meeting of the society, held at Boonville on the 6th to Sth 

 of December, 1887, President J . C .. Evans, in speaking of the history of the society, 

 is quoted as saying : " There was a State Horticultural Society before the war. 

 During the war it was suspended. Immediately after the war it was reorgan- 

 ized." (See 30th Horticultural Report, page 111) This Society was never sus- 

 pended, but held regular annual meetings during the war as well as since, and 

 published reports of each meeting (with the possible exception of the 19th) in 

 either book or pamphlet form, or in conjunction with the report of the State Board 

 of Agriculture. ( See History and Publications of the State Horticultural Society 

 by F. A. Sampson, in 33d Horticultural Report, pages 437 to 449.) 



The writer has in his library every printed report of this Society except two, 

 and he is searching the State over for them. A full set of these reports make a 

 horticultural library that any Missourian should feel proud of. 



Again, President Evans, at the 32d annual meeting of this Society, held at 

 Lebanon on Dec. 4-6, 1889, in speaking of the Missouri Valley Society, is quoted 

 as saying: "I might say that the State Society is an outgrowth of the old Mis- 

 souri Society." (See 32d Horticultural Report, page 290.) This could not be, for 

 the State Society was organized in 1859, and the "Old Missouri," or Missouri Val- 

 ley ^Society, was organized in 1868. (See History of Missouri Valley Society, by 

 Maj . Z. S. Ragan, in 26th Horticultural Report, page 329.) 



We hope Secretary Goodman will have the full proceedings of the "lost meet- 

 ing" published, also the proceedings of the loth and 25th annual meetings repub- 

 lished, as we know of but two copies of the 15th report and of only one of the 25th 



report. 



Henry Strother, 



Sedalia, Mo. 



