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and I got the best lesson of my life. I had the manuscript re- 

 turned to me two days later and the editor had written with blue 

 pencil: "Plenty of money to pay for anything you know, not 

 a blank cent for what you think about anything." (Laughter.) 



I thought I would have to know more, and I promised myself 

 then that if anybody asked a question, and I could not give an 

 intelligent answer to it, whether they asked it of me or somebody 

 else in my hearing, I was going to learn the answer to that ques- 

 tion, and I have practiced this ever since. I don't want to boast, 

 but I will say that I found a man who appreciated what I knew 

 and what I could do well enough so that he is paying me more 

 money than I want. Not many of you are getting that, are 

 you? Paying all my expenses, even to attend this horticultural 

 meeting down here and have a pretty good time, and it is 

 largely due to the instruction that I got from the Minnesota 

 Horticultural Society and the grand men that made this society. 

 (Applause.) 



Mr. Underwood : I think Mr. Smith told me he had twenty- 

 one grandchildren. I think that must have had something to do 

 with his success. 



Mr. Smith: Mr. Underwood, I haven't twenty-one, but I 

 have eighteen, and they all think so much of their grandpa that 

 I have to spend about one-half of my salary or more on them 

 every month, and I never spent any money for anything in my 

 life that gave me so much satisfaction as that. 



Recollections. 



GEO. W. KELLOGG, JANESVILLE, WIS. 



My first attendance at Minnesota State Horticultural Society 

 meetings dates back thirty-five or thirty-six years, at the time 

 when you had no money to pay the board of your delegates and 

 you boarded them round as we school teachers used to do. I was 

 boarded by a Mr. Johnson, a lumberman on the East Side. One 

 morning he brought me to the meeting in his cutter and I froze 

 my cheek. At another time Edson Gaylord, of Iowa, requested 

 that he be assigned to the same house and room with me. Well, 

 we did no sleeping till after midnight ; he had "sun-scald" on the 

 brain. At one of my June visits your society furnished carriages 

 and took the delegates twenty-five or thirty miles through acres 

 and acres of strawberry fields. 



At one of the winter meetings, A. W. Sias made a report of 

 a trial orchard, giving the names of about twenty kinds of ap- 

 ples. "They all made a good growth but were all dead" — he read 

 the results after each kind. He said, "it was rather monotonous, 

 but it was true." Twice I exhibited strawberries at your June 

 meetings, and I always thought I received more premiums than 

 I was entitled to. With the exception of the winter I was in 

 California and the two in Texas, I think I have not missed a 

 meeting, and they are better and better every year. 



