542 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Don. 



We have with us the delegate from New Jersey State Society, 

 whom I would like to introduce to this audience. I would like to 

 hear a word from him, if he is present. I refer to Mr. Barton. 



MR. BARTON. — Mr. President, Indies and Gentlemen, of the 

 Pennsylvania Association: It is a great pleasure to be with you. 

 It has been a very pleasant and interesting meeting, and if there is 

 any one point, more than any other, it is the strength you have shown 

 in your discussions. Everyone seemed to be willing to talk and 

 willing to stand by them, more so than in our New Jersey Associa- 

 tion. You men are specializing on the apple; a few men on the 

 peach business, and that is in striking contrast to our conditions at 

 home. In our little State we have the greatest variety of callings 

 Our men do what you are doing. There, we have one big strawberry 

 man, and in the same neighborhood a big peach man, and possibly 

 a big apple man, and our meetings are up against the different in- 

 terests, and for that reason our meetings are not as much centralized. 

 We have meetings dealing with all fruits from the cranberry down; 

 therefore, I don't think we maintain the same interest in our meet- 

 ings as you do in your meetings, and as I have said it has been a 

 very great pleasure to be with you, and I shall report to our society 

 what an interesting association you have here. 



THE PRESIDENT. — We have a few delegates from our local 

 County Societies, and I would like to hear what they are doing. I 

 would like to hear from Mr. Fassett, of Wyoming county, one of 

 our new members. 



MR. FASSETT.— Mr. President, and Fellow-members of the State 

 Horticultural Society: I assure yon it affords me much pleasure 

 to meet with you. My society sent r.ie down here, not to make a 

 speech, but to use the lead pencil and my brain, and bring back some 

 facts that would be a benefit to our society at home. 



We, in Wyoming county, are more particularly interested in the 

 growing of apples. We seem to ha^e conditions there that are 

 favorable to the growth of apples, and particularly the Northern 

 Spy. We think we can produce this apple to perfection, and pos- 

 sibly with the assorting and care that Brother Hale recommends, 

 we might be able to get three dollars a basket for them. 



We are practically only a new society in Wyoming county, having 

 been organized about two years. Conditions there were such that 

 we saw we must do something to awaken our people to care for 

 their orchards, because of the San Jos^ Scale having made many 

 inroads in our county, and to Prof. Surface, we must give much 

 credit for awakening our people to fight the pest, and save our 

 orchards, and I want to say that we can't do too much for Prof. 

 Surface, and I hope he may be retained in office. 



I thank you for requesting me to come here, and I feel confident 

 that I have received very good facts here that I will be able to take 

 home, and I know our society will be benefited. 



THE PRESIDENT.— I want to say one thing, and that is, that 

 the Wyoming Society should meet oftener. They should meet every 

 month. 



