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ours, your reports are read with great iuteiest by us. I have 

 been absent in Eussia again, or would have replied before. 



Yours truly, 



Chas. Gibb. 



Also the following, under date Nov. 8, 1886: 



Your kind letter of the thirtieth of October I find yet unan- 

 swered. I am doing my best to get through with some horti- 

 cultural and other correspondence so as to give my entire time- 

 to some other matters, and I regret I can not promise you any- 

 thing for your Minnesota meeting. I am over busy now. So- 

 please excuse me, as it is not want of will. Yours truly, 



C.'GlBB. 



On motion of Mr. Sias, Mr. Gibb was made an honorary life- 

 member of the Society. 



FEOM MICHIGAN. 



The following letter from T. T. Lyon, president of the Michii- 

 gan State Horticultural Society, was read: 



South Haven, Mich., Dec. 29, 1886.. 

 S. D. Sillman, Secretary, etc.: 



I am under obligations for a copy of your program for the 

 twentieth annual meeting of your State Horticultural Society.* i 

 was greatly interested, not to say surprised in looking over the 

 exhibit of fruits from your State, at the New Orleans Exposi- 

 tion, and especially so to see among them well-riiDcned Catawbas,. 

 a variety whose home i)roper is in the Ohio Yalley, and which 

 we in Southern Michigan only rij)en. with certainty in our 

 more favorable localities. 



It would be a great pleasure to me to be with you; and to learn, 

 how this is done, and to make the acquaintance of the horticul- 

 turists of your State; but I regret to say that press of other du- 

 ties at iDresent render this impossible. 



Wishing you the_compliments of the season and trusting that 

 your gathering many prove both pleasant and profitable. 



I am, yours respectfully, 



T. T. Lyon. 



