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Transactions of the American Horticultural Society (1)
Transactions of the American Horticultural Society - 1 Author:American Horticultural Society Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: Carlon and Hollenbeck. Subjects: Fruit-culture Gardening Gardening / General Gardening / Fruit Gardening / Garden Design Gardening / Reference Gardening / Regional / General Gardening / Techniques History / General Note... more »s: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PROCEEDINGS OK THE Fourth Annual Meeting OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The fourth annual meeting of the Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society was held in the city of New Orleans, February 21, 22, 23 and 24, 1883. This meeting was held under circumstances of peculiar interest, the Society being, at the time, the guest of the Gulf States Fruit Growers' Association. The leading railroads of the South and West contributed much to the interest of the occasion by offering very liberal rates to delegates who wished to attend the meeting. The Illinois Central railroad company set the good example by offering very low rates from Chicago and other points on their lines, which, good example, was followed by no less than eighteen other companies, whose lines lead in the direction of New Orleans. But for the unprecedented floods, extending over the North and West, which rendered railroad travel not only very precarious, but in many instances absolutely impossible, there would have been many more to have enjoyed this pleasant and very profitable meeting in the Crescent City of the South. Many are the disappointments expressed by hundreds of fruit growers of the North and West at not being permitted, in consequence of the floods, to attend a meeting of so much importance, and especially in a latitude of such peculiar interest to those accu...« less