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society is now engaged, will be a most thorough and valuable work. 

 Every fruit grower should have it. 



Col. Bracket's History of Horticulture in the Middle West should 

 be in the hands of everybody. "The Ideal in Horticulture" is a little 

 gem. One man said it alone was worth one hundred dollars to him. 

 I am sorry to sa}' that the society has less than fifteen members in 

 Missouri. It is possible we will have a special meeting in connection 

 with the World's Fair in St. Louis next j^ear. Prof. Craig and I nro 

 going to St. Louis to-morrow morning. If we have a meeting there 

 next year, Missouri ought to have five hundred biennial members 

 and at least two hundred life members. 



Mr. Powell. — I have something upon )v.\ mind in regard to the 

 study of psychology. When I was in tlie Lnivesity, we learned that a 

 man's conscience might be alert and correct in some things and al- 

 together callous and wrong in other things. I would like to knovv 

 what kind of a conscience a man can have who is always declaiming 

 against the Ben Davis apple and then proceeds to market the product of 

 300,000 Elberta peach trees in New York. 



Mr. Craig. — I would like to say that everything friends Irvine 

 and Hale have said of the American Pomological Society is strictly 

 true. That meeting in Boston was an epoch making meeting. Every 

 fruit grower in the country should have the report of it in his library. 

 Every man who has it will have something of real value to practical 

 horticulturists. This is especially true of the historical side. It has 

 something of inspiration for the east, the middle west and the Pacific 

 coast. If the St. Louis meeting is held we will have something of 

 definite value. We shall have an opportimity to study varieties and 

 their behavior in various localities, superior to anything we have 

 ever had. 



Mr. Baxter. — Senator Dunlap of Illinois, who was commissioner 

 of horticulture at the Paris exposition, 'reported that at the sale of 

 fruit at the close of the fair the Ben Davis apple brought the highest 

 prices. 



Letters and invitations were read bv the secretarv. 



Washington, D. C, November 11, 1903. 

 Mr. I^. A. Goodman, No. 4000 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, Mo.: 



Dear Friend Gooflman. — I have just returned from a western trip 

 and find yours of the 31st ultimo awaiting me. In reply I will say 

 that I am having a great many calls from the different State Horti- 

 cultural Societies for some scientist from this office to attend their 

 meetings. I have just had a consultation with Prof. Powell, in charge 



