HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 69 



FEOM PEOF. McGINNIS. 



St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 22, 1888. 

 S. D. SillmaUj Secretary, etc., 



Dear Sir: I am in receipt of programme for the next annua,! 

 meeting of the Society, 



I recognize in it the names of many persons and friends famil- 

 iar to me, and thank you very much for sending it. 



Although in the railroad business, a business prosaic in the 

 extreme, I have by no means lost my interest in agricultural and 

 horticultural matters. I have spent much time during the last 

 year in traveling over Montana, and, as you may imagine, have 

 studied with deep interest its horticultural features. 



I would like very much to attend your meetings, and would 

 suggest if agreeable to you, and my railroad af&liatious are not 

 a bar, I would be very glad indeed to give an informal talk to 

 the Society on the general climatic and horticultural features of 

 that wonderful territory, such as the distribution of the forests, 

 the water supply of the country, and also the gradual thinning 

 out of the different kinds of trees indigenous to the Mississippi 

 River valley, and the gradual commencement of species belong- 

 ing to the Pacific coast. 



I am quite sure I can say something interesting to the associa- 

 tion in regard to the forest growth and other peculiarities of that 

 great territory. 



Yours truly, 



D. E. McGiNNis. 



FEOM PEOF. OESTLUND, OF THE STATE UNIVEE- 



SITY. 



Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 8, 1889. 



S. D. Hilhnan, Secretary, etc., 



Dear Sir: Yours of December 24th is at hand. I shall take 

 pleasure to attend at least some of your meetings, and also give 

 you something on the subject of entomology. It would have 

 been my intention to take up the study of some of our more in- 

 jurious insects that are of special interest to the horticulturist 

 during the past season, but my opportunities have been, as 

 heretofore, too limited to do anything of special value or worthy 



