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which we want, let us take care of them by all means, and success 

 will eventually crown our efforts. 



President Gilbert, from the floor, said : It seems to me that 

 there is no point connected with the subject of fruit culture which 

 we as individuals and as a Society should insist upon more earn- 

 estly, or urge more strongly upon the attention of cultivators upon 

 every proper occasion, than 



The Importance of High Cultivation. 



The success of those who engage in fruit growing in the future, 

 will depend upon high cultivation. A good quality of fruit results 

 from high cultivation, and to illustrate this we have only to refer 

 to actual sales which have taken place. We are all aware that 

 first-class fruit, choice specimens of fruit, cannot be realized under 

 a neglectful system of cultivation. If we would have choice fruit, 

 we must produce it by thorough cultivation, and by fertilization of 

 the soil in which the tree stands. This may be demonstrated by 

 reference to results which have actually taken place. In my own 

 county, we have several distinguished fruit growers ; they make 

 fruit growing a specialty, and therefore judging from the results 

 which they have attained, I should say that it was necessary, in 

 the first place, to give it just that special attention, without which 

 we cannot succeed satisfactorily. If we would engage in it largely 

 — if we would depend principally upon that for an income, then 

 we should give it just that attention which it demands, and which 

 is absolutely necessary to secure success. These gentlemen to 

 whom I refer, making it a specialty, as I said before, have suc- 

 ceeded in obtaining large returns from the land occupied by their 

 trees. The statements made iii the paper read by Judge Gilbert, 

 at the opening of the exercises this evening, in reference to the 

 value of care as the means of obtaining great returns, are not at 

 all extravagant. Even when apples were as plenty as last year, 

 (1812), these successful orchardists to whom I refer, sold portions 

 of their product as high as $4.00 a bushel, in our own county 

 market; but they were good specimens. Every apple was perfect, 

 and such cannot be grown unless the recommendations made by 

 Judge Gilbert are followed out. When an orchard receives that 

 cultivation, the orchardist is enabled to produce that kind of fruit, 

 and when he produces it, is enabled to sell it for these large prices. 

 I recollect seeing in a Boston paper, last fall, an account of a 



