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In this connection, it is interesting to note that certain gentle- 

 men from different parts of the State, specially interested in 

 fruit culture, have in contemplation a Convention in our Hall 

 sometime during the present winter, to consider the organization 

 of a Fruit Growers Association. As Horticulturists, we ought 

 to welcome the advent of such an Association, for it would be 

 in a line with the aim and purpose of our own Society. If 

 organized, it will not be the first kindred society that has seen 

 its birth in this Hall, nor is its mission likely to be the least in 

 usefulness. While such an organization and our own would 

 both feel that they were travelling the same road, yet each 

 would have its own special work, — the one esthetic, the other 

 practical ; the one dealing with the question of economics, the 

 other occupying broader ground and ever keeping in view the 

 advancement of horticultural science in all its branches : but 

 each would inevitably help and stimulate the other. The 

 stimulus to apple culture of such a movement cannot 1)e over- 

 estimated. We bid it " God-speed." 



