132 STATE rOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



LETTER FROM MR. PATRICK BARRV^ 



President of Western New York Horticultural Society. 



Mr. Samuel L. Boardmak, 



Secretary Maine State Pomological Society. 

 Dear Sir : I have just received copy of Transactions of the Maine 

 State Pomological Society for 1885, for which accept my tlianks. You 

 have made up an excellent volume. Success to you ! 



Respectfully, 



P. Barry. 

 Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1887. 



LETTER FROM MR. W. S. DEVOL, 

 Secretary Columbus Horticultural Society. 



Mr. Samuel L. Boardman, 



Secretary Maine State Pomological Society. 



Dear Sir : T have received your reports, and from a hasty peru- 

 sal of them T think 3'ou must be doing much good in Maine. The 

 catalogue and descriptions of fruits are valuable above the most of 

 such. I liope in this time of reviving interest in horticulture, with 

 a Division of Pomology in the Department of Agriculture, &c., that 

 you may have still greater prosperity. 



Y''ours Truly, 



W. S. Devol, 



Secretary. 

 Columbus, Ohio, May 24, 1887. 



