42 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Resolved^ That as much of our President's address as relates to 

 forming a stocl?: company for the purpose of engaging in orcharding 

 on a large scale, we commend to our capitalists, as we believe it 

 would not only govern in a large measure the price of Maine fruit, 

 but such an association, well managed, would give such returns as 

 would tend to give orc^harding in our State an impetus that could be 

 given in no other way. 



FOUR ACRES ENOUGH. 

 By L. H. Blossom, Turner Center. 



• "Four Acres P^nough" may to some seem of little consequence, 

 but before we cast it aside as a subject unworthy of our attention, 

 let us pause for a moment and consider what we are here for, and 

 what are the objects and aims of this meeting. We have met here 

 for a purpose, and that purpose is to discuss the subject of pomol- 

 ogy in some of its many branches. Every year, as we dig deeper 

 into the mysteries of the cultivation of fruit, brings to light, out of 

 the hidden mysteries of the past, something new and unheard-of 

 before. Every year brings to our notice some new and choice 

 variety of apple which claims a place in every orchard ; at least, 

 that is what the apple-tree agents tell us, and you all know, who 

 have had any dealing with that class of beings that they can't lie. 

 How many of us have been suddenly awakened to the realizing fact 

 that we have encumbered our farms with too many trees of too 

 many varieties, and almost unconsciously we find our farms bur- 

 dened with too much orchard. How often we hear a man say, 

 "Oh, I have got ten acres of orchard ;" another will say, "I have 

 got fifteen acres ;" another has twenty acres, and has ordered trees 

 for two acres more, to be set next spring. Now, to such as these, 

 "four acres enough" may seem to be an absurdity ; but stop, my friend, 

 let me ask you a few questions before you tread my little orchard 

 under your feet, and first is this : Do you honestly think that every 

 tree in your orchard is properly pruned to its best advantage ? That 

 there are no interlocking branches to rub and chafe each other, and 

 thus cause deca}"? That your trees are so pruned that the most sun- 

 light possible can get to the ripening fruit, thus putting on that 

 beautiful tinge so dear to the critic's eye, and which naught but the 



