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but I have come quite a distance to attend this meeting, and coming 

 here, and hearing such men as Brother Hale, Brother Brown and 

 Brother Surface made me feel something like the colored woman 

 that Brother Hale told us about, and I hope my shouting will not re- 

 sult in being shufUed out of this room as they did the colored woman. 

 I feel that I have got more horticultural information than I had be- 

 fore. 



MB. BROWN. — I want to express my gratitude in being here. 

 I have noticed the growth of horticultural interests in Pennsyl- 

 vania, not only in numbers, but in the character and strength of 

 the men that compose it, and it is something very pleasing. You are 

 banded together now in this fraternity, and are going to go forward 

 and do those things that are necessary to be done from year to year 

 that is going to advance this industry. I am very glad to be here 

 tonight to meet all the old faces and many new ones. I hope we 

 will all have the pleasure to meet in Lancaster one year hence. 



MR. YOUNGS. — Allow me the pleasure of extending an invita- 

 tion to 3'ou members of this society, individually, if they are ever 

 over in the section of the State of Pennsylvania that I inhabit, to 

 come and see us. We can show you some things over there that we 

 are inclined to be proud of. Brother Engle is an annual visitor over 

 there, and I think he will at-'iee with me. My address is North East, 

 and if vou cannot run across me down town — I am often there — 

 you can reach me by post, or by trolley, and I will be glad to meet 

 you at the trolley line. We can show you some very tine grapes, 

 peaches and plums, and while our w^ork is not so satisfactory to 

 everyone, yet it has been to us, because it brings us dollars. I think 

 we all have horticulture in our hearts, but we are all looking after 

 that Almighty dollar. 



MR. JAMISON. — I am not a Methodist, but since the thing is 

 going on, I am getting warmed up, and 1 wish to say that I attended 

 the first horticultural meeting, which I was persuaded to do through 

 the Secretary's father. I got my early horticultural education from 

 him. I began to think about 1872, or along there, that we could 

 grow peaches in Juniata county. I had a friend close to me, and we 

 would often talk about it, and I am not so sure but that we talked 

 about it on the Sabbath day. I planted a few trees, and we bought 

 a few trees from Mr. Engle, and he said, "Come down to our meet- 

 ing;" and when you come, I don't want you to go away from this 

 meeting until you tell us how you are getting along up there. I 

 told them how we took the hills of Juniata county and cleared them 

 of briars and brush and made the peach bloom as the Lily of the 

 Valley, and when we were through, there were one hundred thou- 

 sand trees growing in the Juniata Valley, and the bankers in our 

 county seat wall tell you that for years one hundred thousand dol- 

 lars w^ere thrown annually into the banks. What brought it about? 

 It was the work of this horticultural society. When I look around 

 me here now, I see very few familiar faces who were members then. 

 Here is brother Bartram; there is Brother Engle, and Brother 

 Heister; there are not many others, and it will be a very short time 

 until the rest will have to answer the last roll call. 



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