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LETTER FROM PROF. WRITTEN. 



Dear Gov. Colman — Now that }Ou have no doubt had time to hear 

 officially from the Secretary of your election to the position of Honorary 

 \'ice-President of the Missouri Horticultural Society for life, congratu- 

 lations are in order from your Horticultural friends. I wish to ex- 

 tend mine, not mainly upon this technical act of the Society (for certainly 

 nothing which they could do in the way of an official act alone, perhaps, 

 could in any way emphasize your merited honors), but upon the manifest 

 feeling of the members at the time when this position was created, as 

 the most honorable one in the gift of the Society, for the special pur- 

 pose of expressing appreciation of the labors of one who is denominated 

 "The Father of the Society." I assure you that this expression of the 

 Society carried with it the uanimous and heartfelt desire of the Society 

 members to voice a very tender sentiment of appreciation. With best 

 wishes, very sincerely yours, 



Columbia, ^Mo. J. C. Written, 



President ■Mo. State Horticultural Society. 



LETTER FROM PROF. J. W'. SANBORN. 



Editor Rural World : I very sincerely desire to enroll myself in the 

 list of those who are paying a very deserved tribute to Hon. Norman J. 

 Colman. During my official connection with the State Agricultural 

 College of ^lissouri, and with the State Board of Agriculture many 

 years ago I was brought into frequent social and business relations with 

 ^Ir. Colman, as an oft'icer of both organizations. I found him not only 

 a gentleman of great worth and a delightful companion, but an oft'icer 

 above reproach. He was an ardent friend of the then struggling official 

 and unofficial agricultural interests of Missouri, at a period when some- 

 thing more than a passive interest was demanded. The present advanced 

 condition of ^Missouri agriculture is very greatly due to his energetic 

 and faithful services, and it is a great gratification to me to see a recog- 

 nition of this fact, in his day, by so eminent and influential an organi- 

 zation as the Missouri State Horticultural Society, in conferring upon 

 him its highest honors for life, and to see the cordial support and en- 

 dorsement of such well known and worthy men as Secretary L. A. 

 Goodman, President J. C. Evans and others, who have justly gained 

 more than a State reputation. 



