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CONCLUSION, 
The results of even mistaken but persevering efforts tending 
frnitwards in Iowa, have been truly surprising. The exhibitions 
at our recent State and County Fairs, as well as the healthful and 
beautiful young orchards springing up here and there, with their 
unexpected young fruit bearing, actually astonishas all beholders. 
Truly the hey-day of fruit-raising in Iowa now draweth near. A 
joy-giving change is coming over us, for the ladies of our enterpris- 
ing State are taking hold in much earnestness to cultivate, not the 
flower circle only, but the fruit garden also; and to preserve in 
nature’s true simplicity, for future need, the fruits that so bountifully 
crown their health giving labors. Let us, therefore, thank God 
and take courage. Who knoweth whether a laudable emulation 
for fruit growing, shall not soon so possess the women of Towa, as 
will cause our homes to be the same in kind, with those that blessed 
our own childhood’s years? So shall the attractions that cluster 
about those homes, bind each of our youth with the “sweet home” 
cords, so easily furnished, only by an enchanting bower, amid those 
fruitful grounds, where, within the chosen limits devoted to the 
special care and culture of each, they shall vie with all others in 
the glory and splendor of their own productions. Who will forego 
the blessings, that would surely flow from provisions so wise and 
beneficient, and from auxiliaries so quick and powerful, in preparing 
our children for the true labors of earth, and the higher glory of 
Heaven! Time that changes all things, is on the wing, and its 
flight is rapid. 
Men and women of this State, so highly exalted in the exemp- 
tion of our home surroundings from the desolating ravages of war— 
plant trees! plant them for yourselves; plant them for a nation 
that shall yet arise and call you blessed; yea, teach your children to 
love trees, and with joy to plant them. 
