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State Vice-Presidents.

Alabama––W. P. Heikes, Huntsville.
Arkansas––W. R. Tipton, Little Rock.
California––Prof. E. W. Hilgard, Berkley.
Colorado––D. S. Grimes, Denver.
Connecticut––P. M. Augur, Middlefield.
Dakota––E. M. Fuller, Bismarck.
Delaware––W. P. Corss, Milford.
Dist. of Col.––Hon. N. J. Colman, Wash'n.
Florida––Edmond H. [?], Federal Point.
Georgia––Dr. Samuel Hape, Atlanta.
Idaho––Dr. Geo. L. S[?], Salmon City.
Illinois––C. M. Hobbs, Bridgeport.
Iowa––Prof. J. L. Budd, Ames.
Kansas––F. Wellhouse, Fairmuont.
Kentucky––A. D. Webb, Howling Green.
Louisiana––John T. [Hardie?], New Orleans.
Maine––[Gen'l?] L. B[?]man, Augusta.
Maryland––Franklin Davis, Baltimore.
Massachusetts––W. C. Strong, Brighton.
Michigan––T. T. Lyon, South Haven.

Minnesota––J. S. Harris, La Crescent.
Miss.––Dr. H. E. McKay, Madison Station.
Missouri––L. A. Goodman, Westport.
Nebraska––Hon. R. W. Furnas, Brownville.
Nevada––H[?] L[?], Franktown.
New Jersey––John S. Celine, Moorestown.
New York––S. D. Willard, Geneva.
North Carolina––J. Van. L[?], Pomona.
Nova Scotia––C. E. [?], Fort Williams.
Ohio––N. O[?], Dayton.
Ontario––Prof. Wm. Saunders, London.
Oregon––E. W. Allen, Portland.
Pennsylvania––A. W. Harrison, Germantown.
Quebec––Chas. G[?]bb, Abbotsford.
North Carolina––S. C. [Satterthwaite?], Aiken.
Tennessee, C. M. Merwin, Medina.
Texas––J. M. Howell, Dallas.
Vermont––Dr. T. H. Hopkins, Newport.
Virginia––G. F. B. Leighton, Norfolk.
Wisconsin––J. M. Smith, Green Bay.

Organized
Membership Fee, $2.00.

American Horticultural Society.

Officers for 1886-7
President, Parker Earle, Cobden, Illinois.
1st Vice President, T. V. Munson, Denison, Texas.
Secretary, W. H. Ragan, Greencastle, Ind.
Treasurer, J. C. Evans, Harlem, Mo.

Denison, Texas, 10–22—1887

Prof. C. E. Bessey,
Lincoln, Nebr,

My Dear Sir:–

In reply to your esteemed favor
of 20th, can say that I have prepared a
set of specimens of Vitis, to accompany my
monograph of the native grapes of the U. S. for the Dept. of Agriculture, and
am to make up another set for Prof. J. E. Pl[?]ch[?]
of Montpelier, France, recently engaged for him
by Prof. Pierre Viala, French Comr, to study our native
grapes, [and] their deseases &c, recently visiting me, and
still have material in hand to make up other sets,
including all our species – now numbering 21.
The specimens are laves, with usually terminal shoots, seeds
and annual wood. In a few of the species I
am short of some parts, which another year I can
make good. I charge $50. a set and furnish specimens
from various localities of most of the species, so as
to give a good study of each, and agree to supplement
with specimens next year to complete the set, where I am
now short and supply specimens of any new
species I may acquire, without extra charge.

The first sets I collected cost me hundreds of dollars