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object, while it shows the public zeal in that object, is not, of itself, 

 always sufficient to attain it. It is also necessary tliat there should 

 be concert of action anil tmity of purpose^ to bring about any entirely 

 satisfactory results, in a body Avhich seeks to perform any useful acts 

 for the country at large. Had the members of these two conven- 

 tions, brought together by two separate calls (issued at about the 

 sanae time,) all met in one body, there can be no doubt, from the real 

 identity of the interests most important to all of them, that immediate 

 and complete concert of action would have been the result. It needs 

 no demonstration to prove that the information which the public at 

 large expects to derive from a National Convention of Fruit Grow- 

 ers, and the importance which they will attach to the acts and deci- 

 sions of such a body, must depend almost entirely upon its being 

 composed of the aggregate of intelligence and practical knowledge 

 of the whole country. In other words there must- be, there can be, 

 but 07ie National Convention, in order to obtain the confidence and 

 to influence the opinion of the country generally, 



I confess, sir, entertaining these views, that I am not a little grati- 

 fied to fmd that the North American Convention, at its late session at 

 Syracuse, has entertained the same opinion ; and has accordingly ap- 

 pointed a committee of five gentlemen, most of whom are here pre- 

 sent to confer with this Congress on the union or consolidation of the 

 two bodies. I am confident that I speak the sentiments of every 

 member of this Congress, when I say that, from the first, no other 

 spirit has actuated it, or any member of it, but a hearty desire to do 

 all, and everything, with a viev/ to the establishment of a truly JVc- 

 fional Association^ based on no narrow or sectional feeling, but on 

 the broadest spirit of nationality. 



Whatever fruits may be cherished and recommended for culture by 

 a Convention of Fruit Growers, it is plain to me, sir, that \h& first 

 fruit on the rejected list should be the "apple of discord." (Ap- 

 plause.) I therefore, confident of the unanimous concurrence of this 

 body, move that a committee of five be appointed to meet the com- 

 mittee sent here by the North American Pomological Convention, to 

 confer upon some plan of consolidating the two bodies, and to report 

 to this Convention during its present session. 



This motion was put and unanimously adopted. 



Dr. Herman Wendell, of New-York, then remarked, that as 



