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as soon as it arrived at maturity took to itself wings and flew out 

 of it— as the Irish do out of their country — leaving the soil they 

 should liave cultivated, the resources they should have improved, 

 the opportunities they should have enjoyed, to foreigners ignorant 

 of bur customs, satisfied with the way thus opened to them to 

 improve their fortunes.* 



What shall be done to stop this desolating hegira ? What shall 

 be done to inspire our young men with that patriotic ardor which 

 will keep them within the bounds of their mother State ? What 

 to give meaning to the motto which our fathers honestly and 

 proudly placed upon her escutcheon — Dirigo ? 



A new plan must be adopted in the education of our children. 

 In the family and in the school they must be inspired with a love 

 of their native State above that of every other. They must be 

 taught that she has all that is necessary within her bounds to 

 enable them to obtain all that is desirable in life — respectability, 

 prosperity, wealth, happiness. And they must be taught how to 

 apply the resources she possesses to this end — her natural re- 

 sources — not those artificial resources which have come now to 

 be resorted to by men fit only for very little things to get them- 

 selves into office — for it is certain that Maine has a fortune and 

 honor for every one of her sons who tries honestly, earnestly and 

 persevei'ingly to obtain them. 



The establishment of this Pomological Society proposes a source 

 of wealth and of reputation to a class of men that the State needs 

 — of men whose intellects and tastes will enable them by study 

 and experiirfent to determine the kinds of fruits adapted to the* 

 different localities ; the qualities of the different soils, the manner 

 of their treatment to secure the greatest productiveness ; the 

 amelioration of fruits ; the improvement of the apple — that most 

 valuable of all fruits — the pear, the plum, the grape, and the 

 smaller fruits — all fruit, the successful growing of which the cli- 

 mate permits. 



Every year the demand for fruits in the country is increasing; 

 and the demand for the best qualities is such, that the renumera- 

 tion for whatever pains and labor are expended in producing them 

 is ample. 



In order to the production of the best fruits, the different 



* An intelligent citizen, residing in the easterly part of Penobscot county, says that 

 the youug men who have been reared iri.that region nearly all go West, and the Provin- 

 cials como in and take their places, and " make a good thing of it." 



