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this and adjoining States, and a carefully revised list of such varieties of 
fruit as are safe for this climate, therefore we recommend only the planting 
of such varieties of trees and plants as are found therein, except by those 
who have the disposition and facilities for conducting experiments with new 
and untried varieties. 
Fifth. That newspapers throughout the State would protect their readers 
from swindlers and advance the cause of horticulture by publishing these 
resolutions. 
J. S. HARRIS. 
REMARKS OF COL. COLEMAN. 
Pres. Grimes. Ihave the honor of introducing Col. Coleman, 
from Missouri, President of the Missouri Horticultural Society. 
Col. Coleman. I will not bore you long with any remarks. I merely 
wanted to say it gives me great pleasure to meet you and see so much 
interest taken in the discussions. Have been a fruit-growing man all my 
life. Left my position as President of the Missouri Horticultural Society 
to attend the Amber Cane meeting, in which I have an interest. I feel that 
Iam among my own people. Was raised in about the same latitude in New 
York. Ihave heard that some kinds of fruits couldn’t be raised in Minne- 
sota at all. It seemed rather strange to me, because those fruits used to be 
cultivated by some persons in the same latitude in New York. Was glad to 
see the resolution in regard to the frauds, pass. We are meeting with 
precisely the same experience in our own State. Scapegraces are selling 
useless trash, good for nothing, and the worst of it is that they often carry 
off immense amounts of money. 
As I attended the meeting of the American Pomological Society, and by 
the way, we got the Wilder medal for the best exhibition of apples, some 
grapes, and pears, I heard this story : 
Goy. Allen, who is now dead, was one who was always anxious to buy 
mew fruits. And once he bought what was called the Custard apple. Next 
spring as he was going through his orchard he looked at his Custard apple 
and saw that it was a common Pawpaw, of which he could find plenty in the 
woods. Not long after this another man wanted to sell the Governor a fruit 
tree. This agent gave the botanical name, and the Governor being a lover 
of new fruits was persuaded to buy one. Next year he went out to see how 
the tree was getting along, and coming up to it, he looked, and with an 
oath, exclaimed, ‘‘ I’ll be damned if here isn’t another Pawpaw.” 
Think something ought to be done to prevent it. It is getting money 
under false pretenses. But when it is brought into court, where are those 
that sold the fruit trees? 
Gentlemen, I want to congratulate you upon the interest you take in this 
matter. The Almighty has given us these healthful luxuries (for the whole 
year), beginning with the strawberries early in the year, and going to 
the apples late in the fall and through the winter. They have become 
necessities to health in civilized nations. You are engaged in a noble work, 
in a humanitarian work, in a philanthropic work. And I for one, though 
from another State, am with you, heart and soul, and wish you God speed. 
