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will find that its work never can be completed. As it goes on 

 increasing' in strength and drawing to its ranks new members and 

 new workers, the field of labor will continually open before it, 

 inviting to efi'ort. As we labor earnestly and faithfully, so shall 

 be our reward. 



The President's address was by vote referred to a special com- 

 mittee consisting of Messrs. Henry McLaughlin, Joseph Taylor 

 and J. A. Varuey. 



Discussion. 



Dr. N. T. True of Bethel. There are some forty minutes before 

 nine o'clock, and in the absence of any other business I would be 

 happy to hear from the members of the Society or from any gen- 

 tleman present on the points suggested by the interesting address 

 to which we have listened. There are certainly points worthy of 

 further consideration, and I think there will be no better oppor- 

 tunity for considering them than the present. 



The Secretary. I know of no one present better qualified to 

 open the discussion than Dr. True, and I would call upon him to 

 address the meeting. 



Dr. True. I presume I shall inflict all the punishment that the 

 pomologists present are deserving of in this world, to-morrow, 

 and I would prefer to bo excused to-night. However, there are 

 one or two points on which I would like to speak. The President 

 has alluded to the first eff'orts made in this county in behalf of the 

 agricultural interest. They are exceedingly interesting. Some 

 of you may call to mind the name of Benjamin Vaughan, of Hal- 

 lowell, an English gentleman who came to this country a good 

 many years ago. He introduced many varieties of fruit, and some 

 of them have been propagated, and in that way he did a good 

 deal to improve the character of the fruit grown in that section. 

 I came to this town to reside more than forty years ago. I was 

 struck with the efforts that had already been made here in intro- 

 ducing the cultivation of some kinds of fruit. Those efforts were 

 not always successful. Many of them were experiments, but ex- 

 periments are not always unprofitable even when they fail in 

 securing the direct end desired. I made my first home in the 

 house which had been owned and occupied by Hon. John Chandler, 

 known to many of you as our first Senator in Congress. He had 



