46 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



one of your summer meetings, but I have promised to be present at the American 

 Nurseymen's association at Chicago on the same days, and of course I will be there. 

 Please deliver to the good friends of the membership of your society my sin- 

 cerest good wishes, and assure them that anything I can do for the fruit-growers of 

 Missouri will be a great pleasure. Very truly, 



H. E. VANDEMAN, Pomologist. 



Chillicothk, Mo., June 3, 1SS9. 

 Li. A. Goodmax, Secreta?-y, etc.: 



Dear Sir — This is to express my regrets that I cannot meet with you when the 

 society meets so near my home. I have business engagements away from home 

 that make it impossible. But as a substitute for myself, 1 have ordered my renter 

 to send you a box or two of strawberries. It is my wish that you will tell me 

 whether they are new or not. 



Three years ago my berry pickers found a single stool with such nice berries 

 and so many of them, that they were so surprised and pleased that they would not 

 pick them until I came home. The stool was so full that it was astonishing. I 

 took it up and planted it to itself, and from it have a good start. The flower is a 

 staminate, and the berry' ripens about four days in advance of the Crescent. The 

 fruit is not very fine, but of extra good flavor. It is similar to Jumbo but not like 

 it. If it is a known variety, what is it ? Jf new, call it the Early Missourian. 



Yours truly , 



The berry was Cumberland. 



J. W. GBEEN . 



Fredericktowx, Mo., Junel, 1S89. 



L. A. Goodmax, Esq., Westport, Mo. : 



Dear Sir— I beg to call your attention to the report of A . M . Howell, of South 

 Carolina, on the diseases of the vine, page 35, bulletin No. 10, Botanical division, 

 section of vegetable Pathology. Read what he says of Mr. Paul Taffeux** vineyard. 



A. A. BLUMEK. 



Baring, Mo. , May 30, 18S9. 

 Mr. LA. Goodman: 



Dear Sir— I received the programme of the semi-annual meeting of the State 



Horticultural society only this afternoon, at Edina. I get all my mail matter now 



at Baring, a new town on the Santa Fe route; said town is only one-half mile from 



home, while Edina is six miles distant. I make out report this evening, and hope 



it may reach you by June 1st. I shall be happy if I can get off to meet you at 



Brookfield. If my son, who is off at Hannibal as a witness in a railroad trial before 



the U. S. court, gets back in ti me I shall come down. It has been my desire for a 



longtime to be present at one of your meetings, and for the acquaintance of some 



of the members, with whose names and essays I have become familiar in the annual 



reports you kindly sent me for several years. If I cannot come, my heart and best 



wishes will be with you — but 1 will try and come. With best wishes, etc. , 



I remain yours truly, 



PETER DAILING. 



Millersrurg, Mo., June3, 1SS9. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman: 



Not being able to meet with you (on account of sickness), I drop you a few lines 

 that you may know that I am still wanting a place and information from the society. 



