72 ANNUAL REPOET. 



CONGRATULATORY TELEGRAMS. 



Mr. Harris stated that the Wisconsin State Horticultural Soctiey 

 was now in session, and moved that the Secretary be instructed to 

 send a telegram of greeting to the Society. Carried. 



The Secretary sent the following telegram: 



Minneapolis, June 25. 

 Minnesota State Horticultural Society in convention assembled, 

 sends greeting to the Wisconsin Society. A grand display of straw - 

 berries, and members are enthusiastic. 



S. D. HiLLMAN, Secretary. 



REPLY. 



Later in the day the following reply was received; 



"Weyauwega, June 25. 

 Wisconsin Horticultural Society in session with the Weyauwega 

 Society, receive greeting from the Minnesota Society and return the 

 same. Come and see our Wolf River apples. 



B. S. HoxiE." 



LETTER FROM PROF. BUDD. 



The following letter was received from Prof. J. L. Budd of Ames, 

 Iowa, under date of June 23 : 



Mr. S. D. Hillman — My Dear Sir: I have just returned from the 

 nurserymen's convention at Chicago. I tind that the old sorts of trees 

 are mainly dead through to Lake Michigan; only the Russians and 

 the crabs are really alive at Waukegan, 111. My old forty-acre orch- 

 ard in Benton county is wholly dead, except Duchess, Wealthy, Plumb's 

 Cider, Gros Poraier and the crabs, and all except the Duchess and the 

 crabs are sadly hurt. It will pay the State of Minnesota to send a 

 man to Eastern Russia to forward cions. Any variety of apple, cherry 

 or plum doing well in the province of Limbursk and Kazan will live 

 with you as well as box elder. But many of the sorts of Central and 

 Western Russia will fail to stand your test winters. It is impossible 

 to get cions or trees from Eastern Russia without being on the ground. 

 If packed there by inexperienced parties without moss — there is no 

 moss there — they always get used up by their four months' voyage. 



We are most anxious to get the varieties of the black soil sections of 

 Central Russia, say of Oreal and Varouesk, and for Southern Iowa 

 doM'n to Koursk. Yours, 



J. L. Budd. 



