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Thus it will be seen that an Industrial Fair Association has at 

 last been found, able and willing to recognize the importance of 

 horticulture and the great fruit interests of this country and the 

 world, and to provide for their exhibition in the most liberal spirit 

 as one of the most important and attractive departments of a world's 

 exposition. I cannot be mistaken in my belief that these generous 

 invitations, which are wholly without precedent in the history of 

 fairs and expositions, will be responded to by the fruit growers, 

 and the agricultural and pomological societies of this and other 

 countries ; and that we shall see in New Orleans next winter such 

 a varied and profuse exhibition of the pomological wealth of all 

 nations as the most enthusiastic horticulturist has not dreamed of 

 beholding, and which will be of incalculable benefit to the vast 

 interests represented. 



Premium lists will be issued at an early day for distribution to 

 all interested. All inquiries and applications for space should be 

 addressed to the undersigned, at Cobden, Illinois, U. S. A. 



Parker Earle, 



President Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society, and 



Superintendent Department of Horticulture, 



World's Exposition, New Orleans. 



I have also received the following announcement and program 

 of the meeting of the Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society 

 to be held at Kansas City, Missouri, next week : 



THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY. 



The fifth annual meeting of this Society will be held in Kansas 

 City, Missouri, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 

 January 22d, 23d, 21th and 25th, 1884. President's address and offi- 

 cer's report at 2 p.m., 22d. 



The prestige that the Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society 

 has already gained, as the head of the system of horticultu- 

 ral organizations within the great and prosperous valley, from 

 which it takes its name; the very excellent program herewith pre- 

 sented, including as it does, leading horticulturists and fruit grow- 

 ers from all parts of the country; the fact that this meeting is to be 

 held in the most progressive and enterprising city in the West, 

 and, that the Society goes to Kansas City as the guest of the 

 Missouri State Horticultural Society, are of themselves a sufficient 

 guarantee that the meeting will be a grand one. 



This meeting is purposely fixed at a time when farmers and fruit 

 growers are resting from the toils of the year, and when they 

 can best spare a few days time in mutually improving their 

 minds, through such facilities as meetings of this kind only 

 can afford. It also comes after the close of all state and import- 

 tant local society meetings, thus bringing together its membership 

 fresh from their respective schools of horticultural knowledge. 



