I/O STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



river, this Kennebec valley, with its immediate vicinity, if not 

 in this particular city itself, the progressive fruit growing of the 

 State of Maine emanated. It has gone out from here and 

 traveled across the broad State of Maine, covering its entire 

 limit from south to north, from east to west, not in the same 

 bounty in all places, but in no place with greater bounty than 

 has rewarded the efforts in this and near by this locality. We 

 are here by invitation of the city of Gardiner. Some one today 

 mentioned the fact, or hinted the idea that Gardiner was doing 

 homage to the city up the river — wasn't that so, or am I mis- 

 taken about it? It is our privilege tonight to do homage to the 

 city of Gardiner. And well we may do so. So far our stay 

 here has been pleasant in the extreme. So far the endeavor that 

 we brought with us has been rewarded in the full bounty of 

 the most lavish expectation. You have attended not only on 

 our wants, but you have attended on our efforts. You appre- 

 ciate what we are here for. Your appreciation of what we are 

 here for is an encouragement to us to push our efforts. It is 

 just to our Society for me to say at this point that the efforts 

 of this Society from its start up to the present time, the efforts 

 we have ])ut forth individually and collectively, have been 

 entirely without the reward of money, but for the promotion 

 of the business which we represent. I often query whether my 

 associates in this work want to exchange, or would if they could 

 today, the pleasures, the satisfaction, the results that have come 

 from their gratuitous efforts, for money. There is a pleasure 

 in laboring for the good of a cause without the thought of a per 

 diem or a compensation coming along with it to mar those fruits 

 in any degree whatever. We are worshipping too much the 

 almighty dollar, and while the effort of all hands is very largely 

 in the direction of the compensation, and I believe we are culti- 

 vating too much an idea in that direction, and especiall^j with 

 the young that the real thing to work for in life, and I fear 

 sometimes the only thing we are encouraging them to work for 

 in life, is the almighty dollar — too much so, — it is well for us 

 sometimes to sit down and bring to mind that there are other 

 things to reward us for our labors than money; other things 

 that are more valuable ; other things that will make us richer in 

 the end and give us satisfaction in the end that money never can 



