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this may be difficult to do, 1)ut there will l)e ' no trouble 

 about it at all. I thank you very kindly for your attention. 

 (Applause). 



THE CHAIRMAN: Mr. :^IeXeil has not suggested to 

 us what would happen if these good firms go out of business 

 in the meantime; that is the trouble we might have the same 

 as with the other firms. We happen to have one other 

 nurseryman with us, the representative of a firm, and I 

 thought we'd call on him for a few words and then throw 

 this subject open for discussion. We are not going to hold 

 you late, and I hope you will stay until the meeting is dis- 

 missed, because I have one or tAvo announcements I want to 

 make before the audience goes. I am going to ask "Sir. 

 ]Martin King, of the firm of King Brothers, Dansville. to give 

 us a few Avords on this subject. It is no more than fair to 

 give the nurserymen a chance to hit back at us. 



]MR. KING : This is really the most enjoyable day of my 

 life. I've looked forward for years to the time when I 

 Avould have the opportunity to come to Boston and see the 

 Biuiker Hill ]\Ionument and the exact spot that I had read 

 about so much in history in the little red school house back 

 Hi the old Genesee Valley, where the English charged up 

 the hill, and were repulsed tAvo or three times, and to visit 

 Fanueil Hall and go over on horseback, if I could — and I 

 can ride a horse — the same route Paul Revere rode that 

 night Avhen he aroused the farmers of Concord to repel the 

 English, but I knoAV that you don't Avant to listen to any 

 long talk from me to-day. It's rather hard to folloAV ^Ir. 

 McNeil, for he has the reputation, you knoAv. of binng the 

 silver tongued orator of the Genesee Valley, and Avhat he 

 told you to-day, I AA'ish to confirm in every particular, and 

 especially I Avould like to call your attention to Avhat he has 

 to say about buying trees of reliable nurserymen. I Avould 

 tven go further than Mr. ^IcNeil has done in this particular. 



Up until a fcAv years ago, the fruit groAver had abso- 

 lutely no protection from the nurseryman in buying trees, 

 for all of them had in their catalogue a clause to the effect 



