CONTENTS 



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Secretary's Annual Report 5 



Better Culture and More Trees 6 



The Small Fruits 6 



Meetings of the Executive Committee 7 



The Horticultural School 7 



Annual Meeting 9 



Cherryfieid Meeting io 



Other matters 1 1 



Officers for 1902 12 



Members of the Society — Life 13 



Annual 14 



Business Transactions 16 



Meetings of Executive Committee 16 



Public Meetings 17 



Resolutions 20 



Papers, Addresses and Discussions : 



Annual Invocation, by E. R. Smith 21 



Address of Welcome, by Major S. Clifford Belcher 22 



Response to Address of Welcome, by R. H. Libbey 24 



Annual Address, by Z. A. Gilbert 25 



Evaporating Apples, by W. H. Keith 30 



Canning Apples, by E. Herbert Dingley 37 



Fruit Growing in Piscataquis County, by Will E. Leland. . 45 



Ben Davis and What It Stands for, by Prof. F. A. Waugh, 52 



Plum Culture, by E. R. Mayo 59 



A Sermon on the Northern Spy, by Solon Chase 65 



Culture and Marketing of Fruit, by Prof. W. M. Munson, 70 



A Woman Among Small Fruits, by Lilla M. Scales 78 



Insecticides, Their Uses and Abuses, by Dr. Geo. M. 



Twitchell 85 



The Study of Plants on the Farm, by Mrs. V. P. DeCoster, 92 

 Ornamental Planting About the Farm, by Prof. Fred W. 



Card 95 



Fruit and Flower Study in Its Relation to the Primary 



Schools, by Prof. John Craig 99 



Miscellaneous, Dr. Fellows no 



