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to be found in my garden, but if there is a place in this region, I will 

 find it." So I started out in qtxest of something nice in this line of 

 fruit. I visited farm after farm, but found nothing better than I 

 had at home. I made up my mind that for once Mr. Latham was 

 mistaken, and I came home with something of the saioie feeling the 

 man experienced when his field of buckwheat had been killed by 

 the frost. After visiting adjoining farms and finding others were 

 in the same boat, he came home and said to his wife, "It isn't so bad 

 after all, the neighbors have lost theirs, too." 



Some said, "Mrs. Kennedy, I am discouraged. I don't believe we are 

 going to make a success raising fruit. Let us go to Florida or Sunny- 

 side where we know we can raise fruit." I said, "What fun wovild it 

 be, or what thanks would we have if we did just what every one else 

 could do?" I, for one, would like to do something that every one 

 can't do. The harder the nut, the sweeter the kernel. And today I 

 am not discouraged. I believe with such leaders as our preaidentj 

 secretary, Prof. Green, Messrs. Harris, Brand, and Dartt, and a score 

 of others I might mention, we shall yet be able to sit under our 

 vine and fig tree and eat fruit to our fill. 



POMOLOGY AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



J. S. HARRIS, LA CRESCENT. 



The World's Fair was by far the greatest of its kind the world has 

 ever seen. It was a success, made so by the American people, and 

 they have shown to the whole world their capabilities. Never before 

 in the history of the world has any nation arisen in its might, used 

 such indefatigable energy in such laudable inethods to show honor 

 to the great ones and made it such a grand success, The whole 

 country, yes, and the whole world, will be benefited by the inspira- 

 tion of higher ideals in education, art, literature, agriculture, manu- 

 factures, comtnerce, etc., and \re do believe it has revived and 

 strengthened the patriotism of our people and made them to realize 

 the advanceinent of this great country in the four hundred years 

 since one of the islands off the coast was discovered by the intrepid 

 mariner, Christopher Columbus, thus opening for the habitation of 

 civilized man a new world. All that is great and grand in human 

 works on this continent has been created in that time, and we are 

 just beginning to realize our capabilities, and the benign influences 

 will be felt long after this generation has faded away and turned 

 into dust. 



But I think the greatest and most lasting benefits to the American 

 people will follow from the wonderful exhibitions in pomology and 

 horticulture. Millions of our people saw, admired and studied the 

 great and grand collection of fruits, such as no occasion had ever 

 before brought together — fruits froin the cold North, where the win- 

 ters are long and rigorous, and from the sunny South, where the 

 balmy breezes forever blow; fruits of every kind that are used for 

 food, luxury, or that enrich commerce — everything that is beautiful 

 to the eye or pleasing to the taste, from the little red berry that 



