2G8 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



St. Louis, Oct. 23d, 1888. 



L. A . Goodman, Secretary State Poinological Society : 



Dear Sir. — You will permit mc on behalf of this organization to 

 express our high appreciation of the valuable exhibit made, during the 

 exposition just closed, by your society. 



The result of your efforts to place the resources of our st te intelli- 

 gently before our people, as you have unquestionably done, will, I am 

 sure, be productive of great good to Missouri. I earnestly hope that 

 your association will not remain satisfied with what has been accom- 

 plished this season, but rather make your plans sufficiently in advance 

 of another year, to enable you to again be with us. I trust that our 

 legislators will make an appropriation sufficient ly generous to enable 

 you to do the state full justice. With best wishes to yourself and col- 

 leagues, I am dear sir, 



Yours very truly. 



J. H. JOHNSTON, Secretary. 



St. Louis, Oct., 23d, 1888. 



Resolved, That the directors of the St. Louis Exposition and Music 

 Hall Association cannot permit the Fifth Annual Exposition to close 

 without expressing their high appreciation of the value of the display 

 made by the Missouri State Horticultural Society, not only to the ex- 

 position as an attraction, but to the state at large. 



Resolved That while the splendid array of fruits exhibited has cer- 

 tainly awakened very wide and extended interest in the capacity of Mis- 

 souri as a fruit-growing state, second, we believe to none in the union, 

 it is a matter of regret that circumstances have limited the display of 

 the production to only thirty-eight out of one hundred and fourteen 

 counties, many of the most fruitful being unrepresented, and we hope 

 that in future years, with the example already established, the interest 

 of the fruit-growers of the state in this work may be very largely ex- 

 tended. 



Resolved, further, That we recognize in Mr. J. C. Evans, of Harlem, 

 president, and Mr. L. A. Goodman, secretary of the Missouri State Hor- 

 ticultural Society, gentlemen whose unselfish and well-directed labors 

 in making and superintending the display of 1888, are calculated to ex- 

 tend the reputation of the state, and to induce immigration and settle- 



