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by just such careful, practical and enterprising labors as your members a ar 
put i in action, that your state will soon enroll herself among those of eco sais! 
in pomological experience. Thus she will ascertain what fruits are adapt 
her location and thus greatly enrich and bless her people. I shall be g en 
receive the back volumes of your transactions. aa 
I send by mail a package of pamphlets and when this volume of the American 
Pomological Society proceedings is out will send that also. Yours, asever, 
with thanks for your notices of me. +: Se 
MARSHALL P. WILDER, _ 
Letter from Chas. Gibb, Esq. 
80 AyLMER St., Monrreat, 23d Fres., "78. 
To Prof. Chas. Y. Lacy, Sec. Minn. S. H. Soc. 
DEAR Srr:—The reports of the Minn. 8. Hort. Soc. are now upon the shelves 
of the Montreal Hort. Soc’sjlibrary. They have been examined by many of our 
officers and members, and their worth to us in this like climate, is fairly under- 
stood. 
At the request of the directors, in the absence of the secretary, Mr. H. S. 
Evans, I write to ask if the Montreal Hort. Soc. could obtain from your society 
(or through your society from your State government, as the case may be) fifty 
copies of your forthcoming report, and if so, on what terms? These copies might 
be, either in paper or cloth. Paper we would probably prefer. 
This is all I am requested to ask, but if I may here express my personal views, 
I would venture to hope that in course of time some permanent arrangement 
might be made by which our horticulturists might thus profit widely by your 
written experience. 
The M. H. Soc. are about to issue another report, of which we will send you 
copies about two months hence. Were these reports equal to those of your 
society, some arrangement might be made on the basis of exchange; but as they 
are not, and are not likely to be, such would never do, for no arrangement could 
be lasting unless lastingly beneficial to both. 
Yours very truly, 
“CHARLES GIBB. 
Letter from Chas. W. Garfield, Esq. 
MicHIGAN STaTE PoMoLoGIcAL SOCIETY, 
SECRETARY’s OFFICE, GRAND Raprips, Apri 24, 1878. 
Chas. Y. Lacy, Minneapolis, Minn. 
My Dear Srr:—Would you like to exchange a few copies of your last report 
(say ten) for a like number of mine? I am doing this with nearly all the State 
horticultural and agricultural organizations. 
Again; is it possible for me to consummate an exchange of old reports with 
you? I can furnish you with nearly a complete set of ours. 
Please reply at your convenience. My last reports are in store at Lansing, 
and I shall go up there in the course of two or three weeks, and will forward 
you ten copies, if you so desire. 
Yours truly, 
CHAS. W. GARFIELD. 
