I50 THE COXNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



JJ'hcrcas. the call to go forward and beyond came yester- 

 tlay morning just before this convention was called together, 

 and the end came quietly without pain, without a struggle, just 

 like slipping away, drawing one breath here and the next 

 hereafter, 



To him, it is all gain ; to us, it means the loss of his 

 kindly words and inspiring presence ; and yet it is not all loss 

 even to us, for we will always feel that there awaits us in 

 the more beautiful gardens, and the more fruitful orchards 

 of our Heavenly Father, one who was transplanted from our 

 midst in the fulness and ripeness of his earthly life, to grow 

 on and on in the hereafter, and be waiting to welcome and 

 instruct us there, even as he has welcomed and instructed us 

 here. 



Resolved, that as an expression of our sorrow^, we ofifer 

 this resolution as a testimonial of his long years of interest 

 in, and service to, the horticulture of our State, and of this 

 Society. 



Resolved, further, that a committee of three be appointed 

 by our President, to draft such memorials as will tell of his 

 connection and service to this Society ; that it may be printed 

 in our Annual Report and filed in our archives, that those 

 that follow us may not forget." 



Mr. Hale: Probably 40 years ago, when my brother 

 and I started in small fruit growing on the home farm at 

 Glastonbury, I well remember an elderly man driving into 

 the yard one day and introducing himself as Doctor Russell, 

 a lover of fruits and flowers. He had heard of our starting 

 the work and wanted to call and see us. We had a delight- 

 iul visit. And many times since has he called on us. He 

 'was one of the best informed old-time pomologists in our 

 State. Not in a professional way was he a fruit grower, but 

 as a side line of his profession. His passing out at the age 

 of almost a hundred, yesterday, seems a distinct loss ; he was 

 just as actively interested to the last in the work of the fruit 



