40 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



HOW CAX THE MEETINGS AND EXHIBITS OF 

 THE SOCIETY BE MADE OF THE GREATEST 

 EDUCATIONAL A^\LUE? 



]\Ir. Edward L. \\'hite of Bowdoinham : Now I don't like 

 to have this question confined to the meetings alone. W'e only 

 meet here for perhaps two or three days and that closes our 

 meeting for the year. I think that the question should read 

 "How can it be carried into the State to be made of the most 

 educational worth. 



Now I have only outlined a few of the questions — ■ one or two 

 of them are old questions perhaps — one or two of them are ques- 

 tions that would come before the young fruit grower. We have 

 very often heard how to set out an orchard. We come here 

 once in a while and hear of setting fillers, that is. setting a row 

 of what we want to set — perhaps the Sutton or Baldwin, and 

 perhaps fillers of Wealthy or such trees as that between and cut 

 the ^^^ealthies out. This is a question that has come up in my 

 locality a good deal. The question arises, does the orchardist 

 cut out those W^ealthies when they come into bearing, or does he 

 let them stay there and spoil the orchard ? This is a question that 

 would be of great benefit to me to take back to my people and 

 decide for them — that is. to tell them what the opinion of the 

 State is in regard to that subject. 



And the conditions of soil for the dififerent varieties. One or 

 two years ago we had a speaker in regard to the altitudes of the 

 different varieties. In some sections the W^ealthy will grow in 

 such a way that they will keep until Februar}^ or March. Now 

 that is a question, perhaps, that should come before the orchard- 

 ists in this State, the conditions of the soil for dififerent varieties. 

 And then the varieties of fruit, their adaptability to certain 

 sections of the State. My folks at home have had occasion to 

 visit Aroostook County and to see the Dudley Winter growing 

 there. We bring it down here with us and it does not keep 

 as long as in Aroostook. So that proves that the Dudley \\'in- 

 ter is an Aroostook apple, adapted to that locality. Now this is 

 a question that confronts us a good deal in our section. The 

 varietv of course, I will acknowledge, is a good deal in the 



