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The feast she's spread for you and me, 



Is passing sweet and fair ; 

 She's plucked the fruit of every tree. 



And vineyards rich and rare. 



Come, gather round the festive board, 



And drive dull care away ; 

 Let old and young, with one accord, 



Make this a joyful day. 

 She's apples here of every kind. 



White, russet, brown, and red, 

 Except, perTiaps, that ancient kind 



That Eve to Adam fed ; 

 She's " Maiden's Blush," whose cheeks out-vie 



Each blushing maid I know ; 

 The "Yellow Bough," the "Northern Spy," 



"Baldwin," and "Early Joe." 



She 's "Purple Plums" and "Bartlett Pears," 



And " Crawford's " luscious peach, 

 " lona" grapes and "Delawares," 



All spread within our reach. 

 She 's strawberries of every name, 



And melting sweetness, too ; 

 And all the fruits well known to fame 



She offers me and you. 



Then raise the voice and touch the lyre, 



Pomona's praise to sing ; 

 Bring hither gems like crystal fire, 



And crown her " Harvest Queen. " 

 Long live her servants everywhere, 



And blessings on them rest, 

 And may our Pomologic Fair 



Be, evermore, the best. 



EEPORT OF COMMITTEE ON" RESOLUTIONS. 



Mr. Henry S. Clubb, from the committee on resolutions, made a report, 

 which he read, and it was adopted as follows : 



Resolved hy the State Pomological Society in Conveyition assembled, 1st, That 

 during our stay in Kalamazoo we have been entertained with that liberal hos- 

 pitality for which the citizens of Kalamazoo have an established reputation ; 

 that we are under special obligations to Messrs. Bragg & Sterns for the 

 delightful opportunity they have aiforded us to view their extensive " Union 

 Nurseries," where we found thousands of young trees that are to supply the 

 fruit for the coming period, when fruit-growing will be second to no interest 

 in Michigan ; that we regard their nurseries as models for neatness and careful 

 culture ; their fruit and ornamental trees, notwithstanding the long drouth to 

 which they have been subjected, indicate remarkable thrift, vigor, liveliness, 

 and regularity; that their sumptuous entertainment under the shade of their 

 beauteous trees afforded an example of generous rural hospitality peculiarly 

 grateful to cultivators of fruits, proving that the pursuits of horticulture are 

 allied to and promotive of the purest enjoyment and noblest pleasures vouch- 

 safed to man by a bounteous Providence; that to Mr. Stearns, as chairman of 

 the reception committee, we offer our most hearty thanks for his indefatigable 

 exertions for our comfort; that to Messrs. Lav/rence & Chapin we acknowledge 

 our special indebtedness for the pleasure which an inspection of their extensiye 

 iron works and the view of Kalamazoo from the cupola of their building 

 afforded; to Dr.VanDusen, Mrs. Dr. Wheaton, Mr. Davis and others, we return 



