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looked forward with pleasure to the visit, as Mr. 

 Gregory had several interesting seed farms and 

 a very complete seed establishment. A friend, 

 the Hon. J. T. Brown, then a banker in Lunen- 

 burg, accompanied me. 



I shall always entertain the most vivid 

 and pleasing recollections of the day spent 

 en Mr. Gregory's seed farms, and of the 

 hospitality extended by the owner and his 

 family. 



Mr. Gregory had on exhibit a basket of beau- 

 tiful potatoes, which he declared to be quite the 

 best he had ever seen, the product of the sample 

 I had sent him. He asked me to sell the potato 

 to him outright, giving him the exclusive right 

 of introduction. 



And that, of course, was precisely what I 

 wished to do. 



The matter of terms was not so easily ad- 

 justed. I had thought that $500 would not be 

 more than a fair price for the new potatoes. 

 But Mr. Gregory said that $150 was the most 

 that he could pay. Other new potatoes were 

 being developed, he said, and this one would not 

 have the monopoly that it might have had a 

 year or two earlier. Had I developed it even 

 two or three years sooner, he could have paid a 

 thousand dollars for it. 



