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to the pilfering of vicious persons, so discouraging at times to 

 fruit growers. W. Gilbert, Esq., of Bath, spoke of the necessity 

 for a higher cultivation that we may produce better fruit. This 

 high cultivation is not needed on the new lands of the West, and 

 was not necessary here when our lands were new. We are now 

 trying to grow good fruit with only the same efforts that were 

 then required. Of course it cannot be done, and hence a larger 

 per centage of our fruit is not first class. Success will flepeud 

 largely on an intelligent, thorough cultivation. lie also alluded 

 to the necessity for a higher moral culture among the masses as 

 necessary to the protection of the fruit growers, and far more 

 effectual than legal prosecutions. Several other gentlemen alluded 

 to the advantages of high cultivation. 



At the business meeting the oflScers were elected for the ensuing 

 year ; a committee appointed to revise the by-laws ; votes of 

 thanks were passed to the President and Judge Godfrey for their 

 addresses, and to the contributors of fruit from other States for 

 their generous contributions ; and the executive committee were 

 instructed to make arrangements for a winter meeting of the 

 Society, to be held at Augusta on the fourth Wednesday of Janu- 

 ary, 1874, for the presentation of the annual reports of the officers, 

 and the transaction of other business, including a Fruit Growers' 

 Convention, — to which time the meeting was adjourned. 



It is proper to note that the society was represented, in accord- 

 ance with its vote at the meeting of March 27th, and the subse- 

 quent special and kind invitation of President Wilder, at the 

 biennial (and quarter centennial) session of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society, held in Boston on the 10th, 11th and 12th of Sep- 

 tember last. The delegates attending were Z. A. Gilbert, Presi- 

 dent; A. L. Simpson, Vice President; G. B. Sawyer, Secretary; 

 Henry McLaughlin, of the Trustees ; Henry Ingalls, Esq., of Wis- 

 casset; S. L. Boardman, Secretary of the Board of Agriculture ; 

 Calvin Spaulding and W. P. and H. N. Atherton of Hallowell. 



That Society was invited to Boston by the Mass. Horticultural 

 Society, and the arrangements made by the latter Society embraced 

 every attention which the most liberal hospitality could suggest 

 for the entertainment of the members, delegates and guests. 



Nearly every State and Territory in the Union, as well as the 

 British Provinces, were represented by members or delegates, 

 and most of them contributed specimens of their fruits to the ex- 

 hibition. The attendance embraced nearly all the leading pomol- 



