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of them all stands in as high repute as does that old and tried 

 variety, even now ? How many of them all have not, figura- 

 tively speaking, surviving Drought and kindred ills, disappeared 

 beneatli the dead sea of oblivion ! 



Prove all things, if you will, and as you will I but, — hold fast 

 to a good thing when you have it in hand. 



Prove all things ! And, above all, test first the healthy 

 growth and fecundity, in our immediate vicinity and throughout 

 our extended County, of every new local variety. Diffuse a 

 knowledge and disperse scions of Earle's Bergamot ! not alone 

 as a tribute to the memory of our late learned associate, but that 

 it may be determined satisfactorily if its high quality in 

 Worcester necessarily deteriorates in Fitchburg or Southbridge. 

 Disseminate the Worcester Spy I no matter how you view its 

 eccentric and concentric namesake, — a variety now localized, 

 whencesoever its actual origin. Keep an expectant and watchful 

 eye upon the Dav'son ! that new seedling, so lately introduced to 

 your notice. Of these two latter varieties, be their future what 

 it may, this at least may now be said, by men of keen and 

 accurate judgment ; who form their own opinions, never accept- 

 ing them at second-hand ; that each is beautiful to a degree 

 almost unrivalled, each is sprightly and vinous, each matures 

 when you have little else and certainly nothing of like quality : 

 both conforming to the far-sighted and wise exaction of Marshall 

 P. Wilder that fruit shall be " to the manner born " ; and both at 

 home in Worcester County \ Cannot the Leicester Sweet and 

 the Sterling ; the Mother and the Huhbardston Nonesuch accord 

 to them all honor and recognition '{ Can they not, possibly, 

 yield a secondary rank to the Red Russett ; naturalized indeed, 

 yet perfectly at home among us, and perhaps better appreciated 

 here than in the place of its origin ? 



Speculative science has not yet succeeded in proving the 

 evolution of Man from the Monkey. Yet this aflinity is strongly 

 evidenced by their mutual capacity for imitation ; a rivalry 

 wherein odds can be given, safely, by neither. Thus, at the late 

 Floral Display, within the Rink, many of the works of the 

 Creator were closely copied : as closely as they could be, that is, 

 with flowers and foliage wrested and perverted to that mis-use. 



