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Cherries ; Tennant and Giant Prunes, and Diamond and Mon- 

 arch Plums. 



In Raspberries, Cardinal, Haymaker, Ruby and King- from 

 a one year's fruiting seem to have some merit ; Eldorado and 

 Agawam are reliable Blackberries with me. 



In Currants Wilder and Fay for red and White Grape for 

 white please me. 



The above incomplete report is respectfully submitted. 



G. H. Te:rRILI,, I^AMOILLE COUNTY. 



The fruit crop for this county was small as compared with 

 last year, still there was a fair crop of small fruit and also of 

 apples and plums. Plums were a very good crop this year. 

 Apples were of good quality and a g^ood price has been the re- 

 sult. Owing to the wet weather, I think, apples have not kept 

 as well as usual. The mice made bad work with many orchards 

 last winter. New trees have been set in some instances, and 

 more will be needed to fill in where dead. 



DEFINITENESS IN HORTICULTURE. 



PROF. F. W. RANE OF DURHAM, N. H. 



You all know that in any business we take hold of we 

 generally make a success of it according- tO' the amount of 

 definiteness we put into it. That is the word I wish to impress 

 upon your minds, — definiteness. Definiteness in agriculture, 

 definiteness in horticulture, definiteness in every business. 



With all due respect to your mayor, I don't believe we 

 should join with other organizations ; each New England state 

 ought to have a good, rousing horticultural organization of its 

 own. Definiteness is wanted. We don't want the man that is 

 milking cows, and growing apples. Angora goats, potatoes and 

 flowers, and this, that and the other thing, in one organization ; 

 we want definiteness, that concentration of forces that is in other 

 lines of occupation in life. The more a man concentrates his 

 efforts, the more he gets out of his business. The average 



