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from the planting of the seed, the selection of the plant, the production 

 of the fruit, the prevention of injury by the insect pests and fungous 

 diseases ; the proper time and care of gathering, the uses of cold storage, 

 the refrigerator cars and the export of our apples, will all be there to give 

 us of their knowledge and experience and observation. 



The assistance of our adjoining states has been promised. The rail- 

 roads are to give us rates and the Coates Hotel a hall for the conven- 

 tion. The mayor and commercial club have promised their co-operation. 

 The Kansas City, Southern and Frisco will give them a free ride over 

 and through the Ozark mountains, and our local people will do their part 

 in the way of helping in their entertainment ; the florists will see to the 

 decorations. The superintendent of parks, Mr. Kessler, and the assist- 

 ant superintendent, Mr. Dunn, have promised whatever may be necessary 

 to make their visit a pleasant one. 



The following letters give an idea to how our invitation was received : 



Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 6, 1905. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. : 



My Dear Goodman — Your invitation to the Executive Committee of 

 the American Pomological Society to hold its next convention at Kansas 

 City is put in characteristic language. You certainly put your best foot 

 forward, and I am happy to say to you that my predilections are all in 

 favor of accepting this invitation. I do not know what the leading of- 

 ficers have up their sleeves. I had intended to put in an invitation to 

 come to Grand Rapids, making it a kind of an anniversary, it being 

 twenty years since the Association met here before, but I am perfectly 

 willing to waive in favor of Kansas City, and I shall not put in the formal 

 invitation that I had already formulated as coming from our Board of 

 Trade. You have during all these years maintained your relationship to 

 progressive horticulture, while I have switched off into forestry, largely 

 because the greater need of work lay in this direction and there didn't 

 seem to be anybody else willing to do it. I regret that during these later 

 years we have not been thrown more together. But I have kept watch 

 of your work and your enthusiasm, and have the same abiding faith 

 in you and your work that I absorbed years ago when we were in closer 

 communication. Yours sincerely, 



Chas. W. Garfield. 



Ithaca, N. Y., May 20, 1905. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, Secretary Missouri Horticultural Society: 



Dear Mr. Goodman — I should have seconded, by letter, my tele- 

 graphic communication notifying you that the Executive of the American 



