70 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



This offer to hold good for acceptance or rejection for ten days- 

 from date. By order of tl^ president. 



Truly yours, 



FESTUS J. WADE, Secretary. 



St. Louis, June 3, 1886. 

 L. A. Goodman, Esq., Secretary : 



Dear Sir — Yours of the 1st noted. We have accepted your 

 proposition as submitted by Mr. Evans and yourself on the occasion 

 of your visit to St. Louis, and think we have done our duty in the 

 premises. 



While it costs you 81^000 as you say to make the show, it must not 

 be forgotten that our premium money is the smallest part of our ex- 

 pense. 



I think that the amount we have offered is reasonable, equitable 

 and proper. 



Yours truly, 



FESTUS J. WADE, Sec'y. 



This is not what we wanted or asked of them, in fact only one-half 

 of the desired amount, but whether the money justifies the show or 

 not it is for you to decide. An immense amount of work is before us 

 if it is done and the money will hardly pay expenses, yet we often 

 times make these exhibitions and never make any money. The object 

 is to bring out the advantages of our State to the fruit growers and 

 show what each county can do. 



The list of premiums offered will be as follows : The State is di- 

 vided into two sections, north of the Missouri river, 1125, $100, $75,, 

 $60, $40 ; south of the Missouri river, $125, $100, $75, $60, $40. 



Our local societies are becoming- more and more interested in this 

 whole horticultural work and I hope to see the time when we can have 

 one in every good fruit country or fruit district in the State. The 

 same old recommend still holds good, that our officers should visit 

 these whenever they can find time, or rather they should visit them 

 some time during the year, and besides this we should have them make 

 a speciality of organizing others and get them at work. 



If this fruit show is made, then will be a good time to start the 

 work of organization in earnest, for by this means only can we make a 

 success of it. Some one must interest the people enough to start the 

 ball and then our officers must help in the organization of local 



