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 count was had, he did not feel like leaving the polls. That 

 seemed very fair, and we waited awhile and then wrote him 

 again, and he wrote back that they had had the re-count, he 

 had been declared elected and was getting ready to go to 

 the Legislature and would not be able to come up and see 

 eur trees. We have not been able to get him to come and 

 see the trees yet. 



We have grafted them over at an expense of several 

 hundred dollars and some are still waiting to be grafted. 

 That is one side of the question. The other side is repre- 

 sented by nurserymen who are standing squarely back of ' 

 their guarantee; if not true to name, they will make the 

 matter satisfactory to you, and if you and they cannot agree, 

 three men are appointed and they shall judge, and that 

 judgment shall be final. That is a business-like thing to do, 

 and I feel that the time is coming when it will not be possi- 

 ble for a nurseryman to do business who does not guarantee 

 his trees in that way. 



There are a good many things about the nursery busi- 

 ness that we fruit growers do not know very much about, 

 and I think we are fortunate this afternoon in having a man 

 who is going to talk to us a few minutes on the subject of 

 raising nursery stock, from the standpoint of the nursery- 

 man, and I have great pleasure in introducing ]Mr, F. J. 

 McNeil, of the firm of ]\Ialoney Bros. & Wells. (Applause). 



