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find them secreted in every available place in the orchard, and buildings 

 and cellars where apples have been stored. I have, during the past year, 

 tiied tlie plan of placing rags in the forks of the trees, and find that great 

 numbers of them can be trapped in this manner. The cloth band is, 

 however, much more effective, as the worm, in its downward journey, 

 is sure to come in contact with it, and finding it to be a convenient place, 

 spins up and goes into the chrysalis state. Vast nuinbers of the first 

 brood may be destro3'ed by pasturing the orchard witli anything that 

 will eat the fallen fruit, as it drops before the worms escape. But the 

 second brood generally leaves the fruit while upon the tree. Hence our 

 dependence must now be on the cloth band. Old gunny sacks will be 

 found to be the cheapest and best material, as they can be removed from 

 the tree, and the insects killed by scalding, or some other process, and 

 then carefully replaced. Very little can be accomplished in this direc- 

 tion, however, without concert of action ; for my neighbor may carefully 

 desh'oy the larvas in his orchard, yet if I permit muie to become a breed- 

 ing ground for the moth, he suffers from my negligence almost as much 

 as myself. 



When we take into consideration the difficulties, and on the other 

 hand, the great importance of horticultural pursuits, in a moral, estheti- 

 cal, and sanitary point of view, we can but wonder at the indifference man- 

 ifested in relation to it, by the great mass of our people. Is it not pass- 

 ing sti'ange that our Society, situated in the midst of one of the best 

 fruit-growing districts in the West, should have so few earnest, working 



members.'^ 



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In conclusion, let me for a moment speak of the responsibilities that 

 invite, and the duties that urge us on, in this beautiful profession, for 

 they are many and pressing; but its reward is ever present. The man 

 who dwells in the midst of Pomona's treasures — whose garden is fragrant 

 with the blooming rose, and around whose roof-tree the honeysuckle 

 twines, lives in a pure and refining atmosphere. With such surround- 

 ings nature grows brighter; in such a home man grows better. 



Home is not simply a dwelling place, in which to eat and sleep and 

 spend our leisure hours; this w^ould identify it with the wigwam of the 

 Indian, the ice house of the Esquimaux, or the ruder hut of the South 

 Sea Islander ; but a place where the higher elements of man's nature are 

 brought into action, and where he may and should create a little world 

 of beauty. Man's first home w^as in Eden, where grew goodliest trees, 

 loaded with fairest fruit — 



" Blossoms and fruit at once of golden hue 

 Appeared, with gay enameled colors mixed, 

 On which the sun, more glad impressed his beams 

 Than in fair evening cloud, or humid brow. 

 When God has showered the earth, so lovely seemed 

 The landscape." 



His last home will be in heaven, where upon the banks of the Crys- 

 tal River grows the Tree of Life, which yields immortal fruit, and " whose 



