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protect and foster their business, honestly spurning 

 anything like legislation for the purpose of giving one 

 single suspicion of advantage to them over any other 

 citizen, be he high or be he low. The fruit grower needs 

 no special legislation, for all laws that benefit him will 

 be for the general good. In order to stand together, 

 the intelligent growers of the whole Peninsula, if 

 possible, (if not, let the Delaware Growers make the 

 advance,) should establish a Horticultural Society, and 

 let its one aim be the discussion of fruits, and the 

 advancement of the interests of the fruit growers, and 

 so the interests of all the good people dwelling within 

 the jurisdiction of this Society. This meeting together 

 of the leading men in the fruit-growing business, can 

 only lead to good results, and the good effect will be 

 apparent in better methods and better results, as wit- 

 nessed in Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, and 

 many other States. 



Let the Peninsula Fruit-growers gird on their 

 armor, let them lead, not follow, and as Providence has 

 so abundantly favored them, so let them be abundantly 

 thankful, and so be doubly watchful and industrious, 



THE DUTY OF THE STATE TO HER FRUIT INTERESTS. 



As a mother fosters her children, so should the 

 State foster those interests which bring health, wealth 

 and happiness to her citizens, and without disparaging 



