CORRESPONDENCE. 



FEOM CANADA. 



Central Experimental Farm, > 



Ottawa, Dec. 24, 1888. 



8. D. Hillman, Secretary Minnesota State Rortlcidtural Society, 



My Dear Sir: I thank you for the programme you have sent 

 me of your winter meeting to be held in January next. If you 

 were nearer I should like to be present to join in your dis- 

 cussions. 



I hope you will have a very pleasant and profitable time. 



Tours very truly, 



Wm. Saunders, 



Director. 



FEOM MICHIGAN. 



South Haven, Mich. 

 S. D. Hillman, Secretary, etc. 



My Dear Sir: Your very kind and complimentary lett3er is 

 at hand. I shall of course be very glad to know that the report 

 you mention proves satisfactory to the fruit planters of the 

 Northwest. Had the work been deferred for a time, it could, 

 beyond doubt, have been rendered more conclusive as to much 

 of its matter. 



It would be very pleasant to me to be able to attend your an- 

 nual meeting, but this is impracticable. I am glad to know that 

 you are finding some useful apples among the new Russians. I 

 have letters from Prof. Budd, saying that he has this year fruited 

 a large number of the more recent introductions from Eastern 

 Eussia, and finds his anticipations respecting them largely real- 

 ized both as to season and quality. 



From what I observed while in your state I suspect that pos- 

 sibly your most serious obstacle to apple culture will be blight, 

 unless the discovery of the cause (bacteria ?) shall develop also 

 the remedy. 



Very truly yours, 



T. T. Lyon. 



