OF THE KANSAS STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, (ORGANIZED IN 1869.) CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH AND THIRTY- Letter of Transmittal. ROOMS OF THE KANSAS STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, To Hon. E. W. Hoch, Governor : We present herewith the twenty-eighth volume of Transactions of the Kansas State Horticultural Society, containing reports of the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth annual meetings, the twenty-first semiannual meeting, statistics of horticulture in the state, and an imperfect, yet highly important, report on the cemeteries and burialplaces in the state. We hope they may each receive your careful attention. The importance, at times, of immediate information to our horticulturists, makes us hope for such legislation as will make the report annual, and, also, some laws to protect our state from being the dumping-ground of infested and infected trees, plants, and seeds. The report on cemeteries is new, nothing of the sort having been previously attempted. The need of legislation on this line is very urgent, as will be apparent to you on reading. Our Society is growing, and becoming of greater value to the state annually, and should have just recognition in liberal appropriations. Surely no good citizen can afford to lend his influence in crippling this most important branch of husbandry. Hoping this report, in its several parts and in its entirety, may meet with your approval, we respectfully present the same. FRANK HOLSINGER, President. (5) 179532 Bailey, Prof. L. H., Ithaca, N. Y. Forbes, Prof. 8. A., Champaign, Ill. Hale, J. H., South Glastonbury, Conn. Irwin, J. M., St. Joseph, Mo. Johnson, Mrs. Geo. Y., Portland, Ore. Jordan, Menzo, Champaign, Ill. Kelsey, Prof. S. T. (the last of the original members), Saginaw, N. C. Lantz, Prof. D. E., Manhattan, Kan. Snow, Prof. F. H., Lawrence, Kan. Waugh, Prof. F. A., Amherst, Mass. Faculty of Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kan. as follows: |