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your stay in our city. I also extend a cordial invitation to members 

 to visit us at pleasure during any iiour of the day. 



Respectfully, 



GEO. L. OSBORNE, 



President of Faculty. 



Moved by C. W. Murtfeldt, that the Society proceed in a body to 

 the school. 



A telegram was read from the Illinois State Society, sending greet- 

 ing to our Society session, and a response returned. 



Centralis, III., Dec. 9, 1885. 



To the State Horticultural Societi/ of Missouri^ in session, Warrens- 

 hurff, Mo.: 



Brethren: The State Horticultural Society of Illinois sends fra- 

 ternal greetings. Hoping your meeting may be both pleasant and 

 profitable, and that your deliberations when given to the world, will 

 add much to horticultural knowledge. 



JNO. M. PEARSON, 

 President. 



REPORT ON ORCHARDS. 



BY D. B. HOLMAN, SPRIN»J FIELD, MO. 



OMcers and Members Missouri Horticultural Society : 



As one of your committee I will report of orchards in Southwest 

 Missouri, and more particularly of Greene and adjacent counties, but 

 little changed since last report to this society. In tree or wood they 

 were not materially damaged by last winter's cold, and the present 

 year being one of more than usual moisture, they have made a very 

 satisfactory growth and have ripened the new wood very finely, and 

 all things now look favorable for a good fruit crop in 1886. 



