66 STATF. POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



any organization or an}' farmer maj* make to the experiment station 

 will be carefulh' considered at the station. That is what the^^ are 

 waiting for. I know, from talking with the station officers that I 

 have met during the past year, that the real stud}' with them now is 

 to know what the people wish them to do. The}' are not supposed 

 to know what the State wants. If there are any individuals here 

 who have a special line of experimental work which they believe 

 ought to be carried on in the State, if they will present the case 

 fairly to the station officers, I believe they will take up the work and 

 will be grateful for the hint. The hardy varieties of fruit, suitable 

 to the northern part of your State, ought to be tested in that part 

 of the State, and if the attention of the directors of the experiment 

 station is called to this necessity, I think they will be glad to place 

 the work in the hands of intelligent farmers in different sections of 

 the State. In my own State of Connecticut we are doing that, not 

 especially with fruits, but we have several what might be called sub- 

 stations at farms in different sections where work is being: done. 

 Thus the experiment station is practically establishing sub-stations 

 all over the State, to which the farmers in the neighborhood can go 

 at any time, and see what is being done, and make suggestions as 

 to lines of work which they would like to have carried on. I hope 

 some action will be taken here to-day to urge your station to take, 

 hold and help the Pomological Society. 



A committee consisting of D. H. Knowlton, D. J. Briggs and E. 

 "W. Dunbar, was appointed to offer resolutions bearing on the duty 

 of the State Experiment Station in relation to horticulture and 

 pomology. For report of committee see page 19. 



HOW TO PLANT AND GROW AN ORCHARD. 

 By Hexry W. Brown 



I am well aware that the subject is an old one and also that there 

 are many present who have had a great deal more experience in 

 growing fruit than I have, bat perhaps by telling of som • of the mis- 

 takes as well as the success that I have met with within the past 

 thirteen years may help some beginner to avoid making the same 

 mistakes. 



I came to the farm that I am now on thirteen years ago, there was at 

 that time an old orchard on the place set out some forty or fifty years 



