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of fruit, and an appreciative audience. Since the meeting 

 information has reached us that it proved helpful to those pres- 

 ent, with assurances that the society will be again invited to meet 

 in York county. 



The second horticultural school was held in Town fiall. \\"in- 

 throp. The instructors were Prof. W. M. ^lunson, ]Slrs. V. 

 P. DeCoster, Miss Louise Klein Miller and jNIr. Dick J. Crosby. 

 There were two sessions for the children of the public schools, 

 and two evening sessions for the general public. About two 

 hundred and fifty school children were in attendance each after- 

 noon, and good audiences were present each evening. In addi- 

 tion to the work outlined in the program Mr. Crosby visited the 

 high school and in a most acceptable manner spoke of the value 

 of an agricultural education. Miss Miller met the teachers and 

 the ladies of the village and we have since learned with pleasure 

 that much village improvement has followed. 



The field meeting with Mr. S. H. Dawes, Grand View Farm, 

 Harrison, was a most delightful occasion. The trip was made 

 via Sebago lake and the Songo river. So enchanting was the 

 beauty of the lake and the crookedness of the river so bewilder- 

 ing that we begged the privilege of returning over the same 

 route. Grand Mew Farm is on a high ridge of land from which 

 one beholds the water, the hills, ]Mt. Washington rising above its 

 neighbors and a wide expanse of country dotted with farms and 

 villages. The officers were very hospitably entertained in Mr. 

 Dawes's spacious and charming home during our stay. The 

 program for this meeting was largely observation and study of 

 IMr. Dawes's fruit trees and plants. Ever}'one was impressed 

 by the precision with which his work of fruit growing is carried 

 on. The rows of trees and vines were all as straight as the eye 

 could make them. There were no weeds among the vines for 

 the cultivator and the hoe had made clean work among them. 

 An object of special interest to the visitors was the effect pro- 

 duced by Mr. Dawes's method of fertilizing, which he took 

 special delight in explaining to all. The vines and trees were 

 burdened with fruit and there was revealed to us the source from 

 which he has been able to show so much handsome fruit at our 

 exhibitions. So great was our interest that we asked Mr. 

 Dawes to read a paper at the annual meeting that a still larger 

 number may be able to profit from his success and it forms a 



