8 STATE POAIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



part of this volume. Following a sumptuous banquet served in 

 his fruit house, there was a short program consisting of music 

 and speaking by the visitors. If there was any doubt of the 

 desirability of field meetings, it was completely silenced by the 

 grand success of this one, which was the first held by the society. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Four members of the executive committee represented the 

 society at the meeting of the American Pomological Society in 

 Boston, which was held in the ^Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society's new home. There was a good display of excellent 

 fruit among which ]\laine fruit was not as plenty as we found it 

 in the Boston markets. Mr. Arnold, however, from his farm 

 showed some very fine fruit, and we all congratulated him for 

 the deserved reward he received — a Wilder medal. Maine 

 fruit at this time was outselling all others in the market. * For 

 one, the secretary believes that such opportunities for advertis- 

 ing Maine fruit among consumers should never be neglected. 



The great feast of the vacation, however, was in the hall 

 where were assembled distinguished fruit growers from nearly 

 every state and territory. It is difificult to say which part was 

 best, but the platform meeting under the lead of Mr. Chas. W. 

 Garfield of Michigan was the brightest and "meatiest" fruit 

 meeting it has ever been our privilege to attend. Several Maine 

 fruit growers were present .and had others known how much 

 there was to be gained by meeting these enthusiastic fruit men 

 there would have been manv more. 



THE world's Fair at st. louis. 

 In accordance with the vote of the society at its last annual 

 meeting the executive committee, realizing that there was an 

 abundance of fine_ fruit for an exhibition at the World's Fair to 

 be held in St. Louis in 1904, voted to ask the exposition commis- 

 sion to grant the Pomological Society from the State appropria- 

 tion, the sum of $5,000 for the purpose of installing and main- 

 taining an exhibition of Maine fruit. The following letter was 

 then prepared and sent to the commission. 



