COERESPONDBNCE. 



The Secretary read the following correspondence : 



Fergus Falls, Minn., June 22, 1888. 



S. D. HiUmau, Secretary, etc., 



Dear Sir: Thanks for your kind invitation to the summer 

 meeting of the horticulturists. I expect to be in St. Paul on a 

 short visit at that time, and shall make it a point, if possible, 

 to get out to the experimental farm on the twenty-eighth 

 and see the crowd. The sentence in the circular about "ama- 

 teurs" just lets me in, for I'm probably the most amateurist 

 amateur in that line that you'll have present. 



I planted a box of celery this spring. It grew rapidly and I 

 tended it with jealous care for six weeks, carrying it back and 

 forth, watering, pulling weeds, etc. At the end of that time a 

 friend who has raised celery looked it over, and cheerfully told 

 me that it was grass with which the box was tilled ! I had 

 guarded the grass and weeded out the celery as fast as it ap- 

 peared. I 



If this is enough to entitle me to admission among the other 

 horticulturists, I'll be there probably. 



Respectfully, 



Harry M. Wheelock. 



FROM MICHIGAN. 



South Haven, Mich., June 23, 1888. 



S. D. Hillman, Secretary, etc., 



Dear Sir: I am doubtless indebted to you for a copy of the 

 program for your summer meeting to occur on Thursday of next 

 week. 



