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he is so ready and eloquent a speaker. But as he is not 

 here I will say a few words and in reply to Mr. Kellogg, I 

 can only say, that we thank you for your efforts to make this 

 convention pleasant, and for your kind words, coming as 

 they do from one of the most constant workers this soc- 

 iety has ever had, one who always means what he says and 

 says what he means; but some of you do not know how 

 hard he has worked to make this room so pleasant as it 

 now is. It used to be a common thing, more common in 

 ancient times than now, when the watchman upon the 

 walls of the city came around, for citizens to call out: 

 " Watchman, what of the night?" In times of peace the 

 response was always: "All is well." We horticulturists 

 cannot reply that " all is well, " but we can reply safely and 

 surely, that we are working towards a point where all is 

 well. In some things the progress is rapid. Horticulture 

 has been satisfactory and successful in all parts of the 

 state. There is no state in the northwest and none east of 

 the Rocky Mountains, that can be said to have been more 

 successful in raising small fruits. Strawberries, raspberries, 

 grapas, all do remarkably well in our state where- 

 ever they have a fair chance. I remember of hearing 

 a gentleman a few years since, in speaking of small fruits, 

 while passing a store where there was a very fine lot of 

 Delaware grapes, ask a man: "Where were those grapes 

 grown?" He said: "By a farmer some few miles from 

 here. " The gentleman said: " I asked for information and 

 and not to be fooled with. " The brother of the man who 

 had first replied, then said: " I work for the man and know 

 that these grapes were grown here. " " Why, " said the 

 gentleman, " I never saw finer Delaware grapes than theet^ 

 here. I am a Californian and I never saw nicer grapes 

 than these. " I mention this to show that in the northern 

 part of the state we can raise grapes, and so all over the 

 state. We all know that the Great Architect of the Uni- 

 verse has made laws in regard to fruit growing that are in- 

 variable. If we comply with these laws success is almost 

 certain; if we break them failure is almost as certain. One 

 of the members said to me, not long since: " We are m the 



