138 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



President Gulley : I will now call for the report of the 

 Committee on Exhibits of Fruit. 



Report of the Committee on Fruit Exhibit. 



J\Ir. W. E. A\'aller presented the report of the Committee as 

 follows : 



Your Committee would report that they have examined the 

 exhibit of fruit shown in the lower hall, and find displayed a 

 total of 154 plates of apples, 6 of pears, i of cranberries and 

 3 of nuts. The exhibition is good, considering the unfavorable 

 season in 1903, and reflects credit on the skill of the growers 

 contributing fruit. The list of exhibitors is as follows : 



Twenty-eight varieties apples, 6 of pears and i of cranberries, 

 all kept in cold storage, from the Connecticut Agricultural 

 College. 



Samples of fruit taken from the collection which will form 

 part of the Connecticut exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition. 



The advantage of spraying is shown by samples of apples 

 from sprayed and unsprayed trees. 



Mr. E. M. Ives of Meriden exhibits 23 plates of 12 varieties 

 of excellent apples, showing much care in growing. 



Two plates of apples, i of hickory nuts from S. A. Griswold, 

 West Hartford. 



One plate of finely grown Peck's Pleasant. Geo. F. Piatt, 

 Mil ford. 



Tw^o plates Ben Davis, C. W. Roberts, Middletown. 



One plate Baldwin, H. B. Curtis, Cheshire. 



One plate Baldwin and i plate Greening, Daniels Bros., 

 Middletown. 



One plate of highly colored Baldwins from trees not sprayed, 

 S. W. Eddy, Simsbury. 



Four plates of very choice apples grown in Maine, exhibited 

 by G. W. Staples, Hartford. 



Three plates of apples, i plate of nuts, Chas. M. Perry, 

 Southbury. 



Four plates of choice apples. John Loomis, South ^Manchester. 



Eight plates of apples, 5 Baldwin and 3 of other varieties, 

 J. E. Andrews, New Britain. 



One plate hickory nuts, F. B. ^Miller, Bloomfield. 



