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" ' Now, tell us what is Italy ? ' men ask ; 

 And others answer, ' Virgil, Cicero, 

 Catullus, Caesar.' What beside, to task 

 The memory closer ? ' Why, Boccaccio, 

 Dante, Petrarca.' And if still the flask 

 Appears to yield its wine by drops too slow, — 

 ' Angelo, Raffael, Pergolese ; ' all 



Whose strong hearts beat through stone, or charged again 

 The paints with fire of souls electi'ical, 

 Or broke up heaven for music." 



Convened to-day in this ancient Commonwealth we love 

 so profoundly, we may in turn ask, " Now, tell us what is 

 Massachusetts?" And history may answer, *' Brewster, 

 and Standish, and Carver." What besides, to task the 

 memory closer? "Why, Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, 

 and John Hancock." And if still the flask appears to yield 

 its wine by drops too slow, all whose strong hearts beat 

 through press or ploughshare or platform, or charged again 

 law and letters and liberty with fire of souls electrical, or 

 broke up heaven for manhood. 



The Chairman. The first lecture will be by a gentleman 

 who delivered a lecture from this platform before the State 

 Board of Agriculture sixteen years ago, on " Grape Culture 

 in Massachusetts." The cultivation of the grape in vine- 

 yards in Massachusetts was then in its infancy. The first 

 vineyard planted in northern Worcester was planted by that 

 gentleman. Others soon followed his example, so that 

 there are now nearly one hundred acres in vineyards in this 

 and the adjoining towns, yielding an annual product of from 

 two to three hundred tons of fruit, and giving an income of 

 from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars annually. I have 

 now the pleasure of introducing Dr. Jabez Fisher of Fitch- 

 burg, who will address you on " Orchard Management." 



ORCHARD MANAGEMENT. 



BY DR. JABEZ FISHER OF FITCHBURG. 



In these days of close competition in all kinds of business, 

 it behooves the orchardist, if he cares to get in advance or 

 even to keep abreast of his time, to let no opportunity slip 



