258 3IISS0URI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Secretary's Report was referred to a committee consisting- of 

 the following-: Prof. S. M. Tracy, Mnj. Z. S. Ragan, Dr. A. Goslin. 



The following- invitations were given by different places for our 

 next meeting. 



Invitation by the Central Missouri Horticultural Society, Decem- 

 ber meeting, by C. C. Bell, Secretary. 



Invitation by the Montgomery County Horticultural Society, June 

 meeting, by F. Lionberger, Secretary. 



Invitation by the Greene County Horticultural Society, any time, 

 by D. S. Holman, Secretary. * 



On behalf of the lovers and devotees of horticultural in and 

 about St. Louis the undersigned extend an invitation to this society to 

 hold its next semi-annual meeting in St. Louis. Levi Chubbuck for Cole- 

 man's Rural World, J. B. Follett for Journal of Agriculture. 



West Plains, Mo., November 23, 188G. 



Messrs. J. C. Evans President, L. A. Goodman Secretary, Missouri State 

 Horticultural Society : 



Gentlemen — We desire through you, on the part of the citizens 

 of West Plains and Howell county, to extend to the Missouri State 

 Horticultural Society to make West Plains the place of the next an- 

 nual meeting of your society, promising to do everything in their power 

 to make pleasant and agreeable their stay while here, and to show 

 them the wonderful possibilities and adaptation of our county for the 

 propagation and culture of fruit and flowers, of climate, soil and con- 

 figuration of the country. 



Come Ladies and Gentlemen of the Missouri State Horticultural 

 Society ! The latch strings hang out and we promise to do our bestto^ 

 make everything as agreeable and profitable as possible. 



P. P. DOBOZY, 

 S. J. LANGSTON & BRO. 

 O. H. P. CATRON, 

 H. T. SMITH, 

 CARTER & ALSUP. 



By motion the time and places of holding our semi-annual and 

 also the annual meeting was referred to the Executive Committee. 



Since the meeting the Executive Committee have selected the fol- 

 lowing places for the next meetings-. June 7,. 8, 9, at West Plains ^ 

 December 6, 7, 8, at Boonville. 



