126 Missouri State Horticultural Society. 



St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 2, 1884. 



L. A. Goodman, Secretary Missouri Horticultural Society, West- 

 port, Mo. : 



Dear Sir: — While I appreciate your kind attention and courtesy 

 in inviting me to your meeting December 9th and llth,at St. Joseph 

 Mo., I feel that my advanced age and condition of health do not 

 permit my being present there, and there is so little to be said about 

 the subject you desire me to prepare a jDaper, that I shall try to 

 send you one — very short — in time for the 10th (Thursday). Should 

 my friend and partner, Mr. Meissner, be able to attend — I shall 

 transfer the pleasant task to him, and hope you will excuse. 



Yours truly, 



ISIDOE BUSH. 



Boston, Mass.., Oct. 27, 1884. 

 L. A. Goodinan, Sec. Mo. Horticultural Society: 



Dear Sir : Your favor requesting an item for your state 

 report is at hand, and I would gladly comply with it if possible, but 

 I do not feel equal to giving you even a paragraph ; for I have lost 

 three weeks by sickness, and was behind-hand in my work before, 

 and am not yet as strong as I ought to be. I am promised an 

 assistant, and perhaps, hereafter, when my arrears are cleared up, I 

 can give you an item for some future report. 



I am glad to know that you expect to make a good show at 

 New Orleans. We shall try to do something ; but distance, and 

 the fact that fruit growing as a business is not extensive here, are 

 against us. Yours truly, 



EOBERT MANNING, 



Sec. Mass. Hort. Soc. 



Alton, III., Oct. 28, 1884. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, Westport, Mo : 



Dear Sir : Yours of the 23rd received. I do not know tln^ 

 I have any item that would be valuable to the fruit growers of the 

 west. Our knowledge is gathered little by little ; though I 

 no doubt know some things now I did not know a year ago, yet it 

 is so little a thing in itself, I am hardly conscious of it. 



I would like to be with you at St. Joe., but hardly think lean. 



Respectfully, 



E. A. EIEHL. 



