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ever supervision and artistic training, or delicate manipulation they may have been sub- 

 jected ; we would also thankfully accept them as a blessing to mankind. Though they 

 may have originated in the untired and patient labours of a Van-Mons of Europe, who 

 spent a long and valuable life in the service of the delightful and buttery pear, and who 

 started so many fine and standard varieties for the service of the world, they may be thank- 

 fully accepted. Though they may have come from under the scholarly tuition and masterly 

 training of a Thompson, the head of the Royal Horticultural Gardens of England, or of 

 a Dr. Lindley, or a Thomas Andrew Knight, or a Kenrick, or a still more famous, De 

 CandoUe, of Geneva, a gentleman to whose manly and masterly skill, and indefatigable 

 labours we are so much indebted for so many improved pomological treasures ; we thank- 

 fully receive and cherish them. Though they may have come from the still more recent 

 successful labours of a Kirtland, of Cleveland, Ohio ; a Rogers, of Salem, Mass. ; a Wilder, 

 of Boston, Mass., whose memory is so widely and deeply cherished as a national blessing ; 

 or a Clapp, of Boston, Mass. ; or a Miller, of Bluffton, Mo. ; or an Ellwanger and Barry, 

 of Rochester, N.Y.; or a Downing on the Hudson, N.Y. ; or a Saunders or a Dempsey or 

 an Arnold, of home and Canadian fame in the origin of fine table varieties of fruits, still 

 they are most acceptable, and to be taken with devout thankfulness. They are to be re- 

 ceived too, in all the varied and honoured names and designations they bear upon their 

 fair faces, and by which they are severally known. These are sometimes remembrances 

 and bring afresh to our thankful minds the noble figure or still more noble deeds of the 

 noblest of man ; of a Knight, of a Napoleon, of a Rivers, of a Lindley, of a Kenrick, 

 of a Cox, of a Diel, of a Knox, of an Alexander, etc., all of European fame. Still 

 more recently, we have the names upon our fruits of men of home and continental fame, 

 as Wilder, as Saunders, as Downing, as Madison, as Jones, as Manning, as Kirtland, 

 as Longworth, as Elliot, as Rogers, as Talman, as Dana, as Hovey, as Ott, as Piatt, as 

 Rea, as Coe, as Coolidge, as Crawford, as Hale, as Hyslop, as Sturtevant, as Barry, 

 as Herbert, as Houghton, as Moore, as Morton, as Allen, as Williams, as Andrews, 

 and a host of others whose honoured memories we love to cherish. 



Our earnest and best advice then to the people of this whole country, and from 

 whatever part of the globe you may have come, to the high and to the low, to the noble 

 and to the degraded, to the learned and to the illiterate, to the rich and to the poor, to 

 the skilled and to the dunce, to the righteous and to the unrighteous, to the male and to 

 the female, to the young and to the old, to the white and to the black, to the bond 

 and to the free, without any distinction of station, or sex or colour, or creed, 

 or politics, whosoever you may be, or whatever may be your name, use fruit. Give it 

 constantly and plentifully to yourself, whom you deeply esteem, to your wife, in whom 

 you sincerely confide, to your son, in whom you delight, and to your daughter whom you 

 love. Give it without stint to your man-servant and to your maid-servant, on whom you 

 rely, to your ox and to your horse, which you so highly value, and to the stranger, whom 

 you are bound to respect, within your gates. 



Furthermore, and above all, we most devoutly believe in fruit, because it directly 

 points us to God and leads us to think of Him as the " Giver of every good and perfect 

 gift." This we consider to be the highest and most precious service in the whole history 

 • of our fruits. 



We have thus attempted in a feeble way to show the intrinsic value of our native 

 staple fruits, as well as all fruits soft shelled and hard shelled, and some of the 

 reasons why they should be more generally placed upon our tables, upon our dining 

 tables, upon our tea tables, and upon our festive boards for supberb occasions, for our 

 use and comfort. While we are very anxious to produce good fruits for export, fruits 

 well-fitted for the English market, we see at the same time very little good fruit placed 

 upon the table of our peasantry, as though it was perfectly fit and proper for the English- 

 man to use, but not good for us. We emphatically teach the contrary; place it upon 

 jour tables in a natural state, in a prepared state, for the meal, for desert, for use, and 

 -our humble word for it, the public health and the public purse would be the gainer. 



At this stage the Association adjourned till two o'clock. 



