SUMMER MEETING AT LOUISIANA. 59 



Sarcoxie, Mo., June 7, 1886. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, Secretary Missouri State Horticultural Society : 



Dear Sir — Herewith find 81.00 membership fee. 



Have also, with this express (prepaid), sent a bale of trees from our 

 cool storage building for exhibition. In bale you will tiod 2 bundles 

 peach, 1 bundle apple, 1 bundle climbing roses, 1 bundle peach in dor- 

 mant bud, 1 bundle apricot, I bundle catalpa — the above-named stock 

 ivas placed in storage during Xovenber and December, 1885; also, a 

 bunch of catalpa (injured in top, but roots sound) vt^hich were placed in 

 storage December, 1884, and have been kept over to present time as 

 shown. All stock was kept in storage without use of moss. 



At close of meeting divide stock with members that may desire to 

 try stock at this late in the season. 



Sorry we could not arrange to be with you at the meeting, which 

 is owing to one of our firm having to make a trip east, and has had to 

 start several days ago in order to make the desired points before reach- 

 ing Washington on the 16th, for ]!^"ursersmen'8 Convention. 



Wishing the meeting at Louisiana a success, 



Yours- truly, 



JAMES B. WILD & BROS. 



St. Louis, Mo., May 10, 1886. 

 Dear Sir — I am afraid I must beg otf again. I go east a few days 

 after your summer meeting, and I shall be very busy for the last week 

 or two before leaving, I am afraid to even undertake the committee 

 report that I owe in return for the compliment of a place on the Com- 

 mittee on Fungi, as I have yet too little knowledge of the subject in 

 Missouri, and besides am much pressed for time. 



Believe me, yours truly, 



WM. TEEALEASE. 



South Haven, Mich., May 25, 1886. 

 Secretary L. A. Goodman : 



Dear Sir— Thanks for programme of your summer meeting at 

 Louisiana, which I doubt not will prove interesting and profitable. I 

 would gladly be in attendance, were Jit possible, but I will be confined 

 at home by duties in connection with the summer meeting of our State 

 society, which is to convene at Lansing on the 15th and 16th of June. 



The present prospect here is for a full crop of small fruits. Straw- 

 berries will probably commence ripening very soon after June 1st. A 

 heavy crop of the larger fruits is in prospect, especially peaches which 



