548 OTATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



SOUTH HAVEN AND CASCO POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



REPORTED BY SECRETARY GULLET. 

 OFFICERS FOR 1888. 



President — C. J. Monroe. 



Vice President — A. H. Cook. 



Secretary — W. H. Payne. 



Treasurer — E. W. Liuderman. 



Executive Committee — D. E. Histed, H. G. Linderman, G. Lannin. 



The year 1887 has been one of comparative quiet for this society. Nothing 

 particularly new in insects or diseases has appeared to attract the attention 

 of the members, and the yellows has been so thoroughly overcome by the past 

 efforts of the society that the disease has hardly been heard of the past year. 

 It has been so fully proved that the course pursued by the society in advo- 

 cating a thorough eradication of diseased trees, as the only way to compete 

 with it, that not a grower can now be found in the vicinity that would take 

 any other course. 



The very large crop of nearly all varieties of fruit the past year has also 

 80 fully occupied the time of the growers that but little was left for society 

 or other work. Yet the past experience of the society has been, that when 

 any matter came up requiring its especial attention, full meetings could be 

 depended upon. The meetings the coming winter will prove this to be the 

 case. The very dry season which has just past has brought up new questions 

 of irrigation, cultivation in drouths, more thorough thinning of fruits in 

 such seasons and other topics in connection with them, that the society has 

 new fields of discussion which have not been particularly brought out. 



Of the many new varieties of fruit sent out each year, no more can be 

 added to the list published in the last report, as being specially desirable for 

 profit. Perhaps the order of the lists might be changed somewhat, for differ- 

 ent seasons change the yield and profit of the varieties, and growers are liable 

 to remember the success of the more recent years rather than of those that 

 have past. But the general list would not be changed. 



The result of the past work of the society is well shown in the uniform 

 manner in which the work of the growers in the vicinity is carried on. When 

 any mode of cultivation or pruning is found to produce the best results, 

 through the society it is made known to the growers and soon adopted by all, 

 80 that a general similarity of work is found through the whole community. 



Such have been the results of the work of the society in the past. And as 

 good results may be expected of its future existence. 



