Maine State Pomological Society 



Report of the Sixteenth Annual Exhibition Held in 

 Lewiston, September ii, 12, 13 and 14, 1888. 



By invitation of the trustees of the Maine State Agricultural 

 Societ}' the executive committee of this society met them in Lewis- 

 ton, and perfected arrangements for holding the society's sixteenth 

 annual exhibition in connection with the exhibition of their society. 

 The arrangements made were definitely understood and recorded by 

 both societies. There was perfect harmony of action between the two 

 societies, and, we are glad to state, the most friendly relations have 

 continued to the present. The exhibition was accordingly held in 

 the exhibition hall in the State Fair Park, Lewiston, September 11, 

 12, 13 and U, 1888. 



The executive committee gave the revision of the society's pre- 

 mium list most careful attention, and after fully discussing the 

 premises decided to reduce the number of premiums offered on single 

 varieties of apples and to increase the amount of premiums offered 

 for our three leading winter fruits for market, namely, the Baldwin, 

 Ehode Island Greening, and Roxbury Russet. The premiums 

 offered for each variety were $5 for the first, $3 for the second and 

 $2 for the third. In this department each plate consisted of just 

 twelve specimens of fruit. At first there were some doubts about 

 the wisdom of this plan, but as the season advanced it seemed to 

 be approved by fruit growers, and when the fruit tables at the ex- 

 hibition were put in order there was spread out before the public a 

 display of winter fruit never surpassed in Maine. For the Baldwin 

 premiums there were forty-two plates of fruit, for the Rhode Island 

 Greening thirty-one, and for the Roxbury Russet twenty-five. 



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