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if you would like our choir to furnish music, and just what we can 

 do to be of interest to the meeting, aud we will do what we can. 

 Of course you want a display of fruit. Next week I shall be at 

 State Grange, but will be ready to carry out any suggestions as soon 

 as I get home. 



Yours fraternally, 



W. H. Tracy, Master. 



In accordance with the invitation arrangements were perfected, 

 and the meeting was held in Patrons' Hall, Norway, February 4, 5 

 and 6, 1890. The papers presented were excellent, the discussions, 

 though brief, were practical, and the attendance was large and enthu- 

 siastic from first to last. Comparing the papers with those read 

 before other societies we do not hesitate to say the literary exercises 

 of our union meeting take high rank among them. 



The exhibition of fruit was good and represented orchard ng in 

 six counties at the State, namely : Androscoggin, Cumberland, 

 Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford and Penobscot. The fruit was of 

 excellent quality, though many growers having disposed of their 

 apples in the fall neglected to save the best specimens for exhibition. 

 It may be well to note as an interesting fact, that the displa}' receiv- 

 ing the first premium was grown at the foot of Mt. Blue, farther 

 north than profitable fruit culture was supposed to be possible a few 

 years since. 



The officers of the Society are indebted to Mr. W. H. Tracy, 

 Master of Norway Grange, and Mr. C. H. George for their cordial 

 assistance in perfecting the details for the meeting. And to the 

 members of the . Grange the officers also desire to express their 

 thanks for their co-operation in all matters relating to the meetings. 



The ideas advanced in the following papers represent the opinions 

 of individuals interested in Maine fruit culture. The Society pre- 

 sents them to the public as they were offered, but assumes no respon- 

 sibility for the same. 



OPENING EXERCISES. 



At the hour appointed Mr. B. W. McKeen of Fryeburg, member 

 of the Board of Agriculture from Oxford count}', called the meeting 

 to order. He briefly referred to the objects of the gathering and 

 thanked the officers of the State Pomological Society for the prom- 

 ised feast of good things in pomolog}- . The grange choir being in 

 their places all were invited to join with them in singing "America." 

 The speaker then introduced Rev. Miss Caroline E. Angell of Nor- 

 way, who gave the Address of Welcome. 



