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the blackberry field and saw handsome bushes, fairly loaded with 

 the fruit. While, perhaps, it does not bear more abundantly than 

 the Lawton, it is decidedly its superior in good qualities. As it 

 originated in the Kittatiuuy mountain it is hardy, and there is little 

 doubt that it is the best cultivated blackberry known. 



After returning to the town, a meeting was organized, and Gen- 

 Halstead was selected chairman. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble, bemg called out, spoke of the advantages 

 of New Jersey for fruit-growing, as witnessed on this occasion, and 

 he estimated the soil for this purpose as worth more by twenty 

 dollars an acre than the soil of any other State. 



The Chairman spoke of the adaptation of the light soil of South 

 Jersey for farming purposes, and he maintained that forty-five 

 bushels of wheat to the acre had been raised there, in one locality, 

 this season. 



Dr. J. C. V. Smith was enthusiastic in praise of that section of 

 New Jersey, and with the impression that all the land they had 

 passed through could be made more profitable than a corn-field by 

 the cultivation of the small fruits. 



Mr. Thomas Cavanach said that, after what he had seen of the 

 Kittatinny, he would take back what he had said before, and he 

 acknowledged it superior to the Lawton. 



Mr. J. J. Thomas said that he had brought this variety safely 

 through the past winter, which was one of the severest, on such 

 plants, he had ever known, while the Lawton had been cut down 

 severely; and from two-year old plants he had, perhaps, four hun- 

 dred full-sized berries. More time was required thoroughly to test 

 the Kittatinny, but at present it is exceedingly promising. 



Mr. P. T. Quinn said he felt proud to be associated with men 

 who had introduced a fruit of such value, and during four years he 

 had not changed his opinion of it. 



jVIr. William Lawton, the originator of the Lawton, gave the 

 Kittatinny great praise, and spoke of the advantages all new fruits 

 are to a country, by giving employment and food to a greater num- 

 ber of persons. 



Mr. L. Witherell, of Boston, spoke of the new aspect of horti- 

 cultural discussions, which lately includes the presence of ladies. 



Mr. S. E. Wells made a happy speech on the connection which 

 exists between the development of the higher faculties of the mind 

 and the growing of fruit, the adornment of homes, and the superior 

 advantages which the laboring men possess as a result of such efibrts. 



