ANNUAL MEETING 



OF 



MAINE STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 



AUGUSTA, MxMNE, NOV. I4, 1 5 AND 16, I9II. 



Tuesday Evening, November 14. 

 Music. 



Prayer by Rev. L. W. Coons, of Augusta. 

 Music. 



In the absence of the Mayor, Hon. Niles L. Perkins gave 

 the address of welcome on behalf of the city. 



Members of the Maine State Poiiiological Society, ladies and 



gentlemen: 



I deem it a great honor and special privilege tonight to be 

 granted the opportunity to welcome, in behalf of the Mayor, 

 the Maine State Pomological Society to this capital city. 

 Knowing what you stand for and realizing what you have 

 accomplished, I wish to extend to you a hearty greeting and 

 cordial welcome on the part of every citizen within our borders. 

 It has always been the custom of Augusta to throw open its 

 gates and give enthusiastic support and co-operation to every 

 and any society or body that comes into our midst with the 

 object of advancing and developing the resources of Maine. 

 You have gathered here tonight, as I understand it, for that 

 very purpose, — to discuss different experiments which you 'have 

 tried since your last meeting, to initiate new ones, and thereby 

 develop and make more productive the fruit growing industry, 

 which is one of incalculable value and far reaching importance 

 to the welfare and prosperity of our State. 



Any one who knows anything abo'Ut the teaching of this in- 

 dustry fully understands the obstacles which it has had to sur- 

 mount. I have been in the forestry business three years in this 

 city ; I have done work in and traveled over the greater por- 



