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bob-veal for display, — let alone premium ! But what better do 

 they, whether in the line of example or precept, who submit for 

 judgment and award on the fourth day of September, Anjou, 

 Dana's Hovey, Bosc, or Lawrence ! Effort without stint has been 

 wasted in a rivalry that has once more approved itself futile. 

 Means that could illy be spared have been literally thrown away 

 in the purchase of horticultural appliances and furniture that, at 

 best, would but feebl}' approximate our own thorough and ample 

 equipment. Tlirown away ! I repeat, since we already occu- 

 pied the entire field of Horticulture, had made adequate pro- 

 vision for its ever}' need at Exhibitions, and hold ourselves 

 ready in all earnestness and with the utmost courtesy, to fulfil 

 our allotted task. So doing, we leave with those to whom they 

 appertain the engrossing and responsible duties consequent upon 

 an honest, whole-souled devotion to specific, time-honored Agri- 

 culture. There ought never to be rivalry, nor occasion for strife. 

 The grievous load of indebtedness that weighs upon the Society 

 by Agricultural Street, had its origin in ambition to do too 

 much, fostered by the lying promises of men, who, as a class, 

 are always ready to have others do for them. I know whereof I 

 speak, having yielded to importunity and signed three (3) suc- 

 cessive Deeds to land, to remedy incompetent surveys and eke 

 out inadequate lengths of track, whereon the gelding might dis- 

 play a speed which he could never transmit ! his owner obtain a 

 field for training, in clamor for whose purchase he could not be 

 too vociferous as, in contribution for its payment, then, as since, 

 he was and continues hopelessly bankrupt ! 



As for the Society itself which, upon the urgency of D. Waldo 

 Lincoln and O. B. Hadwen, had agreed to relinquish further at- 

 tempt at Horticultural Exhibitions, you all know how that engage- 

 ment is kept. Of itself, among the well-informed, competition 

 with our Society appears as impolitic as it is, in fiict, preposterous. 

 If prosecuted from an al)stract love for horticulture, it is labor 

 lost that were better applied where it might tell to advantage. 

 If persisted in for the sake of gain, — our own Societ}' was long 

 since compelled to abandon the custom of filling an ark with 

 specimens of everything that could not be killed and would not 



