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THE BANQUET. 



The delegates and visitors, to the number of 200, then sat at a 

 banquet, lasting until midnight. C. H. Dutcher of Warrensburg, Mo., 

 was toastmaster, and toasts, all bearing on the conditions and growth of 

 horticulture, were given by E. W. Kirkpatrick of Texas ; N. E. Hansen, 

 South Dakota; Ernest M. Pollard, Nebraska; S. B. Green, Minnesota; 

 W. H. Ragan, Washington, D. C. ; Professor John Craig, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The health of the Missouri Horticultural Society and L. A. Goodman, 

 its Secretary, were drunk standing. Mr. Goodman spoke, and presented 

 a gavel, made from staves and put together like an apple barrel, by the 

 young men of Park College, Parkville, Mo., for the Society. The gavel 

 was beautifully bound with hoops and beads of solid silver, making a very 

 striking picture. Engraved on one head was "American Pomolo- 

 gical Society. From the Mo. State Hort. Society, Kansas City, Sept. 19-21 

 1905." On the other head, "Apple tree 90 years old, 10^ feet in cir- 

 cumference, grown in Jackson Co., Mo. May the Society prosper long 

 and well." The wood of the gavel was grown in an apple tree in this 

 county, which was 90 years old when cut, and was shown at the World's 

 Fair. — Kansas City Journal, 



NOTES FROM SECRETARY CRAIG. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL CONVENTrON. 



This important Society held its twenty-ninth biennial meeting at 

 Kansas City, Mo., September 19 to 21. Notwithstanding the western 

 freshets, which so seriously crippled the railroads running into Kansas 

 City, the meeting was well attended, and will go down into pomological 

 history as one of the most successful held by this Society. 



The east was not as well represented as it should have been. The 

 attendance from the west and southwest was excellent. T. V. Munson 

 of Texas and Parker Earle of New Mexico represented some of the old 

 guard. Hon. E. W. Kirkpatrick, ex-president of the American Associa- 

 tion of Nurserymen, took a prominent part. Mr. A. Willis of Ottawa 

 was the official delegate. In the absence of President Hale, Chairman 

 Watrous of the Executive Committee presided with fairness and ability. 



