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selling if they did not get more than twentj'-five cents per hundred 

 pounds. They marketed their fruit, and the crop was so large that there 

 was profit in it. It was the same in that case as it is in so many other 

 instances, that a man who is thorougli and capable makes money, while 

 the man who is not, loses. 



There is not anything else, I think, in connection with the immediate 

 business of the society, of which it becomes necessary to speak. 



TWO GOOD ADDRESSES. 

 WELCOME, BY HON. C. W. GARFIELD. 



The committee in charge of the arrangements allotted to me the pleas- 

 ant duty of welcoming this society back to the home of its birth in some 

 words that should seem fitting to the occasion. I greet you with a satis- 

 faction I can but poorly express. A sense of pride in your achievements 

 swells my heart with joy. W,e cradled this society with the arms of our 

 city, and it grew in strength and favor. Before you could walk with any 

 accuracy or precision, however, you- left the scenes of your birth, and 

 your home visits have been |.ew and far between. There has always 

 existed the most cordial feeling between us. We have watched your 

 development from childhood to youth and from youth to mature man- 

 hood with love and devotion. We have been proud of your success and 

 influence. You have been aware of this and have known that whenever 

 you have chosen to return to your early home, warm hearts would wel- 

 come you. Today, as we extend to you our heartfelt greeting, we are glad 

 to express our satisfaction in your devotion to the cause you so early 

 espoused. 



In the quarter of a century since you came into existence our state has 

 made marvelous strides of improvement, and in no department of energy 

 has the advancement been more marked and praiseworthy than in hor- 

 ticulture. You have done your part in this wondrous evolution. In the 

 annals of your history are to be found the names of the brightest minds 

 in our state, who have contributed from their stores of knowledge liber- 

 ally in aid of your efforts. You have called to your assistance the state 

 university and the agricultural college. You have drawn from all call- 

 ings and all professions to strengthen your purpose and widen your 

 influence. You have not been parsimonious in your returns. There is not 

 an orchard nor a garden in this state that has not felt your beneficent 

 influence. You have made an impress upon the rural homes of Michigan 

 that will be more apparent with added years. 



Not only have your endeavors reached the accessories of life that add 

 beaut}^ and satisfaction to the process of living, but you have not 

 neglected to lift pomology and horticulture into a sphere that commands 

 the attention of del vers in science. Men whose lives are devoted to 

 -working out scientific problems have, through their work, been brought 

 to see that in the processes which underlie the most interesting and val- 

 uable results of horticultural art there is opportunity for the deepest 

 thoughts and most delicate experiments that require the best ability 



