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SECURING THE MEETING OF THE AMERICAN POMOLOGI- 

 CAL SOCIETY AT KANSAS CITY. 



President and Secretary and Executive Committee of Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society: — The Missouri State Horticultural So- 

 ciety wishes to present the strongest kind of an invitation to the 

 American Pomological Society to hold its next session at the great- 

 est commercial center of the West and the best city of our land. 

 There are 29 railroad lines centering here, so that it can be reached 

 from all parts of the United States. We have plenty of hotel fa- 

 cilities, the best in the country, so that all the Society can be to- 

 gether at one hotel, and reduced rates v^ill be given. Halls for the 

 meeting and for the exhibition of fruits will be provided free of 

 charge. 



Kansas City is the center of the greatest fruit growing district 

 of the West. Missouri has the greatest apple orchard planting of 

 any other State and the largest apple orchard in the world, and yet 

 not one-tenth part is yet developed. 



Missouri has one of the best Societies of the country, and scat- 

 tered over the State are over 30,000 fruit growers, who are inter- 

 ested in your work. Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas 

 and Oklahoma are in close touch with this center. Kansas City 

 and the fruit growers of all this Center West will be glad to meet 

 you if you will only come to Missouri at Kansas City. 



No other State or city can offer you all things so readily at 

 hand, and no State can offer the assistance and good will of so 

 many fruit growers as can Missouri. 



We do most earnestly ask that you hold your next meeting 

 here at Kansas City, and pledge the hearty support of our State 

 Society and all our fruit growers. 



We feel sure that our railroads will give a trip over their lines 

 down to the Ozarks, where some of the big orchards may be seen. 

 We would suggest about August 6th as the time to suit all our 

 fruit growers the best. 



My Dear Mr. Whitten — I enclose you the result of our con- 

 ference. I also send you the invitation to be sent to Hale, Craig 

 and to every member of the Executive Committee of the American 

 Pomological Society. If you will sign and send to them, I wish 

 you would. 



