letters from prominent horticulturists. 71 



Department of the Interior, 

 "Census Office, Washington, Feb. 25, 1890. 



Sir : The receipt at the library of this office of a copy of the Re- 

 port of the Nebraska State Horticultural Society for the year 1889 is 

 acknowledged with recognition of your courtesy. 



Very respectfully, Robert P. Porter, 



Superintendent of Census. 

 Hon. G. J. Carpenter, Secretary State Horticultural Society, Fair- 

 bury, Nebr. 



Department of Agriculture, ^ 

 Central Experiment Farm, V 

 Ottawa, Canada, January 13, 1890. J 



G. J. Carpenter, Esq., Fairbury, Nebr. : Dear Sir — I regret very 

 much that I will be unable to attend your meeting at Lincoln. A 

 call east two weeks ago has prevented me from preparing a paper on 

 the subject assigned me. Very truly yours, Jno. Craig. 



Department of the Interior, 

 Census Office, 

 South Glastonbury, Conn., July 12, 1890. 



My Dear Mr. Carpenter : Sickness of Mrs. Hale has kept me 

 home a week longer than I had expected, and now I cannot make my 

 western and southern trip both in one, so must go south now and take 

 in the west in September, greatly to my regret, as I did want to at- 

 tend your horticultural meeeting. Yours, J. H. Hale. 



Newport, R. I., July 28, 1890. 

 My Dear President Taylor : Here, where I am enjoying an 

 all too brief respite from the somewhat severe strain under which you 

 found me laboring on your recent visit to Washington, and which has 

 continued down to the present time, my thoughts turn to the Nebraska 

 State Horticultural Society and its forthcoming meeting at the beau- 

 tiful little city of Crete, always pleasantly associated in my mind with 

 our excellent friend and esteemed fellow member, Mr. Stephens, and 

 with the Boswell Observatory, where Prof. Swezey is doing so admir- 

 able a work for the state, at the head of its weather service. If your 

 meeting were but thirty days later, I should probably be in a position 

 to make public some of the results of the census, bat when I left 



