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and have a local society also. This division which I propose in our 

 circular aims to do this. Congressional districts are arbitrary. If it 

 is possible to get at it, we should have our fruit districts — districts 

 founded on known differences in climate, soil, configuration, vegetable 

 jjroductions, rain-fall, &c. 



Mr. Brown — We might take the sense of the Society as to re-dis- 

 tricting the State. 



The President — It would be necessary, in such a case, to amend 

 the constitution. 



Mr. Kinney — It strikes me that in carrying out the plan of Mr. 

 Flagg, it would be a good plan to have the vice presidents from those 

 districts, and also the ad interim committee from there. 



Mr. Flagg — In order to bring the matter before the Society^ I move 

 that we take up the question of re-districting. 



Mr. Periam — In relation to the selection of vice presidents, it seems 

 to me that it makes very little difference whether they embody in their 

 report a particular fruit district or a congressional district ; and inas- 

 much as the Constitution would have to be altered to meet the new 

 scheme, it would be a long way of going about to do that which would 

 do no real good in the end. 



Mr. Flagg — I will call Mr. Periam's attention to some facts. Here 

 is a district — I think it is the tenth. In that district we find the county 

 of Fayette in with the county of Jersey, whose' conditions are entirely 

 different. The Vice President reporting upon it would find that he had 

 to report on conditions entirely alien. 



Mr. Periam — I can not see the pertinency of that, for the Vice 

 President, in his report, simply shows the status of horticulture in his 

 district, and consequently there would be no conflict, but, on the other 

 hand, I think it would have a good effect, because he would get testi- 

 mony from one county and from another upon the same subject. If 

 that testimony conflicts, we are not necessarily compelled to make up 

 our minds that there is a conflict of actual facts. 



We have spent a long time in discussing the question of root or 

 top-grafting. Now the question occurred to me as to whether the real 



