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Money was made easily then and spent freely, we became extravagant 

 in the use of money and time, and can no more expect such things or 

 times. 



I wonder, when this subject comes to me, "what we will do," if 

 we are as slow to learn of this change of times, and seasons, and cus- 

 toms, and business, as were the people here at the close of the war. 

 I wonder if we begin to understand that we must adapt ourselves to 

 this new order of things, and do twice the amount of work for one- 

 half the pay. If not, then we fail to realize the questions, and times, 

 and demands that are staring us in the face. 



When I located at Westport, over twenty-five years ago, there 

 came to my grounds every day an old gentleman (riding upon his little 

 pony), of the times, and customs, and manners, and business of before 

 the war. He looked on in disgust to my planting berries, and vines, 

 and trees, and evergreens, and his continual advice to me was that 

 "you will never make a cent out of all this work and nonsense. I 

 have been here forty years cutting down just such things as you are 

 planting. Go and raise hogs and mules, and cattle and corn." He 

 never came to realize, to the day of his death, that it was a new era of 

 things, that the old times had passed way, never more to return. He 

 died mourning the good old times, and was continually repeating 

 that town, and country, and people were going to destruction as fast 

 as possible. 



So, I think, when we hear the complaints and fault-finding, and 

 recurrence to old times, and old prices, and old profits, and old suc- 

 cesses, if we are not as blind to the changes of our times as was that 

 man and those people, to the changes of the times at the close of the 

 war in many parts of our State. 



What we will do is to take these questions, and times, and seasons, 

 and changes, and go at them with the same vim that we did ten, 

 fifteen, twenty or twenty-five years ago. What will we do ? Ask the 

 young man of twenty or twenty-five years. He never grieves over 

 old times, but with all his energy, and earnestness, and enthusiasm, he 

 works with consciousness of nothing but success. 



What we will do as a society will depend upon what we do indi- 

 vidually. We surely cannot make the Society a success if we are not 

 individually a success, for the whole cannot be greater than all its 

 parts. 



I feel sure in the prophecy when I say that this Society will con- 

 tinue its work in the future as in the past, in awakening this western 

 country to a realization of its advantages for horticultural pursuits. I 

 look to see this Society send out a good entomologist, or botanist, or 



