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of Nature, and arrest fermentation and total depravity by a 

 simultaneous prohibition ! 



Moreover, new kinds are continually developed. If no actual 

 advance upon the lona, in point of quality, is yet manifest, it is 

 certainly not from lack of experiment. But we could well afford 

 to be content with that grand variety, were it endowed with a 

 greater degree of hardiness. Let us wish success to all efforts, 

 by whomsoever made, to produce the Grape of the Future ! And 

 until that ideal is in actual possession, let us do the best that we 

 can, under the skies of New England, with the many excellent 

 varieties that we already enjoy. A single adverse season should 

 not paralj'ze a generation. 



All which is respectfully submitted, 



by 

 EDWARD WINSLOW LINCOLN, 



Secretary. 

 Horticultural Hall, 



Worcester^ Worcester Oo.^ Ifass., 

 7 November, A. D. 1888. 



