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he continued to grow and increase in mentality and 

 usefulness as he conducted his researches and instruc- 

 tion at the Station and College. Just at the time he 

 reached his majority as a worker in the rapidly expand- 

 ing field of agricultural research and instruction, he 

 was taken from us and American horticulture lost one 

 of its ablest and staunchest teachers and investigators." 

 I wish to add my personal testimony to the real worth 

 of Professor Goff. Although he left New York soon 

 after I entered it, I leaned heavily on him and his work, 

 and continued an association that had been formed some 

 years before. He was always the clear thinker, the 

 patient seeker, the considerate and careful friend. 



L. H. BAILEY. 



ITHACA, N. Y., 

 January 1, 1916. 



