CONTENTS 



Secretary's Report : page 



Pan-American Exhibit 5 



The Awards at Buffalo 5 



Paris Exposition 6 



Public Meetings 6 



Maine Fruit in 1900 and 1901 8 



Officers for 1901 11 



Members of the Society 



Life Members 12 



Annual Members for 1900 13 



1901 13 



Treasurer's Report 14 



Business Transactions 16 



Officers for 1902 21 



Awards at the Pan-American Exposition 22 



Annual Invocation, by Rev. W. H. Gould 23 



Address of Welcome, by Prin. W. S. Brown 24 



Response, by D. H. Knowlton 26 



Annual Address, by Z. A. Gilbert 28 



Care of the Orchard 



The Importance of It, by R. H. Libbey 31 



J. H. Hale on same 32 



Methods of Fruit Culture, by V. P. DeCoster 33 



Fertilization by Chas. S. Pope 36 



Results of Culture, by John W. True 41 



The Selling of Our Fruit — How to find the Market for Small 



Fruits, by A. A. Eastman 44 



J. H. Hale 46 



How to prepare Fruit for Market 49 



Package for Apples, by J. H. Hale 51 



by G. Harold Powell 52 



To Whom and When to Sell, J. H. Hale 54 



The Biggest Price— How to Get It, Hall & Cole 56 



Cover Crops for the Orchard, by G. Harold Powell 57 



Fruit and Fruit Culture, by J. H. Hale 63 



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