ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



With the publication of this volume the labors of the 

 writer as president of the Oregon State Board of Horticulture 

 will practically cease. 



For the past six years he has been identified with the hor- 

 ticultural interests of the state, three years as president of the 

 State Horticultural Society and a like term and relation with 

 the State Board of Horticulture. 



These positions have been profitable only in the sense that 

 they brought him in contact with better pomologists than 

 himself, thereby adding to his own scant store of knowledge. 

 He has also greatly enjoyed the social fellowship of the pro- 

 fessors of the experiment stations and of leading fruit growers 

 of Oregon and adjacent states, and when he recalls these 

 pleasant associations he forgives the gentlemen who induced 

 him to accept these positions. 



To Secretaries Dosch and Lamberson, for prompt and in- 

 valuable services, to the commissioners of our five horticul- 

 tural districts for earnest and intelligent co-operation, to the 

 press, which has popularized the papers and bulletins of this 

 board, to the Southern Pacific and Oregon Railway and Nav- 

 igation Companies, for courtesies that practically supple- 

 mented the modest appropriation of the state, and to our fruit 

 growers, whose hospitality he has enjoyed, and who have 

 taught him much, he would make grateful acknowledgment. 



E. L. SMITH. 

 Hood River, Januarv, 1903. 



