42 ANNUAL REPOET 



FROM TEXAS. 



Dallas, Texas, Dec. 30, 1887. 

 S. D. Hillman, Secretary, etc.: 



Dear Sir: Your kind invitation and letter received. 

 Thanks for the former, and in reply to the latter, beg to say our 

 State report is not out yet. When out will comply with your request. 

 I am doing all I can to get same out. Will you send a delegation to 

 California to the national convention of the American Horticultural 

 Society? We send you programs of our last state and local meetings. 

 Yours truly, Mrs. J. R. Johnson, 



Secretary Texas State Horticultural Society. 



FROM WASHIJ^GTON. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, ) 

 Washington,D.C., Nov. 29, 1887. S 



S. D. Hillman, Secretary, etc.: 



Dear Sir : This year I again submit for your consideration an- 

 other schedule, which is but slightly changed from that of last year. 

 You will see that according to it, it is desirable that your Society hold 

 its annual meetings on the first Tuesday after the fourth Monday in 

 January of each year. The only reason for this, is the fact of the 

 collision in the meetings of your State and Iowa, unless some such ar- 

 rangement is made permanently. There are special reasons, as we all 

 well know, why this should not occur — because of the intimate rela- 

 tions of their respective members, and because of climatic conditions 

 of similar character. Please present this matter at your next annual 

 meeting. Yours fraternally, 



H. E. Van Deman. 



I recommend the adoption of the following : 



schedule por annual meetings of state horticultural societies. 



First Wednesday in December (annual meetings), Michigan, Da- 

 kota, Missouri; second Wednesday in December, Ohio; second Tues- 

 day in December, Illinois; third Tuesday in December, Kansas and 

 Kentucky; first Tuesday after first Monday in January, Indiana and 

 Colorado; first Tuesday after second Monday in January, Nebraska; 

 first Tuesday after third Monday in January, Iowa and Pennsylvania; 



