38 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 



Prof. Alfred G. Gulley : I belong to the Connecticut State 

 Pomological Society. That is a wide awake society. I am, 

 however, a representative of a Connecticut State Agricultural 

 College which is located at Storrs. I have a little state over 

 there that is doing something now in horticulture, or more strict- 

 ly one branch of it, pomology, which is now covered quite ably. 

 But it has wholly come up in the last twelve or fourteen years, 

 wholly because some men there wanted to do something. Now 

 we have got a State Horticultural Society that is forty years 

 old, more or less, twice that for anything I know — and they 

 have not done a thing in twenty years practically. They make 

 a little show every year, a few of the members take all the prizes, 

 and that is all there is of it. We have a good deal better work- 

 ing society in pomology which I think has been doing some good 

 for the last ten or twelve years — at least it has changed our 

 products in two or three lines from practically nothing up to a 

 pretty large amount. We are interested in one or two lines you 

 don't touch. The peach growing is a pretty big thing. It rep- 

 resents a pile of money this year to some of the growers there. 

 It represented a good deal last year. Over five millions of trees 

 were planted this last spring in peaches alone. So that we are 

 doing something in that. It is uncertain even in Connecticut, 

 from our climate — that is the worst of it. 



We hold a regular annual meeting in February. We hold an 

 annual exhibition in September, about the 25th. This is always 

 held now in connection with one of the local fairs — whichever 

 fair wants us the worst, will pay the most — we go. That is all 

 the way we locate it — with the understanding they will give us 

 all the privileges we ask for. and they do now, and mighty glad 

 to have us come. Our little show this last fall covered about 

 twelve hundred plates ; we have had up to sixteen hundred. We 

 do have an annual show at our annual meeting of one, two or 

 three hundred plates as the case may be, and somewhat of ma- 

 chinery, of which Mr. Wheeler spoke. That is certainly valu- 

 able. I have been working hard five years to get it into our 

 meetings as much as possible. It has required a deal of work 

 to get the blamed manufacturers to bring it. It is a little too far 

 for them, and they have got all they can attend to at home. 



Mr. Craig, of Auburn : It affords me great pleasure to pre- 

 sent to you in the first place greetings from the first, you might 



