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St. Louis, May 25, 1903. 

 To the Honorable President and Members, Missouri State Horticultural 

 Society, Pertle Springs, Mo., 



Gentlemen — In behalf of the City of St. Louis, I take pleasure in 

 extending to your Society a cordial invitation to hold your meeting for 

 the year 1904, in this city. 



Very truly, 



RoLLA Wells, Mayor. 



Holt, Clay county. Mo, May 30, 1903. 

 L. A. Goodman, Kansas City, Mo., 



Dear Sir — Of all the 14 years I have handled berries this is the worst 

 1 have had. All along I had hopes of getting a pretty good half crop, but 

 I give up. This morning the field is red with berries with rain pouring 

 and every other one is rotten, so there is nothing to show. The creeks 

 are all out of their banks. C)f 20 varieties I have tried, Haverland is 

 worth them all and Bubach next. I have a patch of Haverland now that 

 has been badly frosted 3 times that I believe will fill 2 rows of boxes 

 set end to end on each side of the row if we can get sun tO' mature them. 

 They are in hedge row, they are about 3 plants wide and 4 inches apart 

 in rows, they are fertilized with Clyde and they are just as full, but it 

 must hurt any man's conscience to ship them to any one, they are so poor 

 in quality. 



Well, I have a good show yet, but there are but few apples in the 

 country, some of the Ben Davis are getting moldy and it is impossible 

 to spray for rain and mud. Most of the orchards are brown from the 

 Vi^ork of canker worms. If men have the right to raise such stock as 

 that to destroy our fruit, why do we make them restrain their other 

 stock? I think this will be a good question for the June meeting. 



Well, we will have a few cherries, a few peaches, plenty of black and 



raspberries, no dewberries, no pears, not much corn, about half planted. 



I am too poorly to leave home, but will be with you in spirit as long as 



you meet. 



From Yours Fraternally, 



G. T. Odor. 



From Z. T. Russell, Carthage, Mo., June i, 1903. 

 L. A. Goodman: 



Dear Sir — 'Many people used to claim and believe that the black 

 raspberry did not do as well in the south as in the north because of the 

 greater heat and less moisture of the former. 



Now, in 1901, we had the longest and severest drouth ever known 

 since berry growing was first tried in this section of the State, and not- 



