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more trees than they care for and the consequence is the orchard 

 doesn't pay them " 



Nathan W. Harris, Auburn, has about 600 trees in bearing, 

 though the trees are young. As yet he has not received much profit. 

 Last year his apples sold for S267.19. He believes the Society can 

 help fruit growing interests by "keeping at it." "For precept must 

 be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line ; here a little 

 and th re a little." 



IN MEMORIAM. 



" Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unpotted life is old age." 



It may have been my own father's gray hairs that eaily taught 

 me to respect the aged. There was more than respect in my senti- 

 ments, for when I looked upon his whitened locks and watch. d 

 over him in the declining years of a long and useful life, many 

 thoughts would come to me of the long life his old age represented. 

 I never meet an old person but there arises within me a desiie to 

 know something of the life that has been crowned with age. The 

 joys of childhood and the fickleness of youth have disappeared, 

 and the stern realities] of life have developed both stability and 

 character. Idle^fancies have long since passed away and the prac- 

 tical judgment of age has given settled convictions in morals, in 

 religion, in politics, in business, yea, in all the affairs of life the 

 aged are confirmed in practice, positive in opinion and sound in 

 judgment. 



The-se and similar thoughts ran through the writer's mind at our 

 Bangor meeting in 1890, as he looked upon the venerable form of 

 Elijah Low. It had^ notj been our privilege to meet before, and 

 through] the j^efforts of Mr. B. A. Burr of Bangor, whose death 

 occurred only a few weeks after our meeting, Mr. Low's name was 

 placed upon our programme for a paper on "Plum Culture." It 

 was a special pleasure to meet him, for of the many who had 

 courageously undertaken the culture of plums in the eastern part 

 of the State, he was about the only one who had been successful. 

 Only a few weeks before his beloved wife had fallen sick and 

 passed to the laud beyond. While he did not look like an old man. 



