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States, and it will help build up the fruit industry throughout 

 the whole country to have such a measure. I hope then, that 

 we may have the indorsement of this Society for this measure, 

 and that when you hear from Dr. Twitchell sometime in Decem- 

 ber or January that this matter is up before Congress, you will 

 sit down and write your congressman a letter and say that we 

 need that legislation. I don't know any other way of getting 

 a measure of that kind through, and that will help immensely. 

 I hope not only this organization, but the granges throughout 

 the State — the Pomona granges, State granges and local granges 

 — will pass resolutions in favor of this measure and see that 

 they are forwarded to Washington. The matter will come up 

 before the National Grange at Washington this week, and I 

 have no doubt it will be indorsed by the National Grange as I 

 have assurances from them. 



HORTICULTURE IN EUROPE. 

 (Stenographer's transcript.) 

 By Prof. John Craig. 

 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I want to take you on an extended trip through Europe. In 

 the institution with which I am connected when a man works a 

 certain length of time and he becomes more or less ineffective 

 in his department, they do one of two things — either give him 

 a rest or "fire" him. I don't know just how ineffective I 

 became, but they gave me a rest. Perhaps that was a warning 

 that the next time my rest will be indefinite. And so with my 

 family I took a steamer to Southern Italy, and travelled after- 

 wards through Italy, Germany, Holland, France and England, 

 and the pictures which I will show you are those which I 

 secured on this trip. If they have any merit at all, they have 

 the merit that they are personal productions, and out of several 

 hundred which I secured these are some which bear more or less 

 upon the horticultural topic and out-door life generally. 



