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are rich in fertility, and it is not necessary to expend any 

 money for fertilizer. They are elevated and well drained, and 

 after this past winter you will know that drainage means a 

 good deal, and also elevation means a good deal. When you 

 find a difference of twenty or thirty degrees in the temperature, 

 and find the buds alive at the top of the hill and killed at the 

 foot of the hill, you will see it means something. On a field 

 like this, you can have good crops on an off year, get good 

 money for them and then pay your bills, if you are an honest 

 man. While this Society has endorsed what the gentleman said 

 about my being either a damn fool or crazy one, it remains to be 

 seen. 



That, in brief, is as far as I have got. I haven't any well 

 defined plans for the future. If you ask me what I shall do 

 next year, I will tell you what I hope to do, but I cannot tell 

 for sure. I am satisfied that the rough lands of Connecticut 

 can be developed for horticultural purposes, and they will 

 make better lands than any we own. 



President Gulley : What do you think you will do next 

 year? 



Mr. Hale : I think we shall take some grubbing hoes and 

 grub around those trees. If there are any that need taking 

 out, we will take them out. I think that is the best we can do. 



The subject was continued by JMr. H. W. Collingwood, editor 

 of the Rural Nezv-Yorker, Xew York, who explained his 

 methods of planting and caring for the trees in the "Rough- 

 land Orchard." 



Planting and Care of the Trees. 



By H. IV. Collingixiood. 



Mr. President and Members of the Connecticut Poinological 

 Society: 



I am very glad to speak to you to-day. I feel we have been 

 living as neighbors for fifty years, and I like to speak to a 

 Connecticut audience. In one way they are like the gathering 

 of colored gentlemen. Colored gentlemen say that at a political 

 convention "every nigger has a razor in his boot." Now, every- 



