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went. As associated horticulturists, you can find choicest 

 Apples or Pears at home, as good Peaches as any of which 

 California or Georgia can boast ; and may grow, with perfect 

 assurance of success, such a profusion of flowers as would suflace 

 to replace every tint of the rainbow, were the original pattern 

 unhappily lost. Be not led astray then, in strange paths nor 

 suffer yourselves to be deluded by tempting contrivances of the 

 adversary ! Remember always that it was from Eden that you 

 were beguiled, originally ! Keep the home that you have been 

 so fortunate as to acquire sacredly dedicated to its legitimate 

 purpose ; nor ever allow it to be perverted therefrom, no matter 

 what, or how plausible, the pretext. Horticulture, within the 

 scope of its entire comprehension, has its own noble aims ; — 

 ample for the exercise of any ambition. Confine yourselves 

 closely within its limitations and you may live lives of abound- 

 ing usefulness, while your children shall rise up and bless your 

 memory. 



All which is Respectfully Submitted 



EDWARD WINSLOW LINCOLN, 



Secretary. 

 Horticultural Hall, 



Worcester, Massachusetts, 



7th November, A. D. 1895. 



