AFTERKDON SESSION 



Vice President Jenks in the Chair. 



THE CHAIRMAN: There has been some change in 

 the program. We are going to combine with the marketing 

 Hession this afternoon. The first speaker is Mr. 0. M. Tay- 

 lor, Horticultural Foreman, New York Agricultural Experi- 

 ment .Station Geneva, New York, wiio Avill discuss "Small 

 Fruits." I have known Mr. Taylor for several years and 

 have kno^vn of his work for a great many years. I think 

 very highly of him, and the people of New York State think- 

 very well of him and they know him better than we do. It 

 has been some time since we have had a chance to hear Mr. 

 Taylor in this section of New England and we certainly 

 welcome this opportunity. 



MR. TAYLOR: Mr. Chairman. Members and Friends 

 of the ^Massachusetts Fruit Growlers Association, before tak- 

 ing up the subject as announced on the program, I wish at 

 this time to express my appreciation for the opportunity of 

 meeting with the Fruit Growlers of Massachusetts, and it 

 gives me pleasure in i)ringing to you the New Year Greet- 

 ings of a sister state and also of the twin societies, the New- 

 York State Fruit Growers, which had their meeting last 

 week in Rochester, and also the meeting which will be held 

 in the near future of the Western New York Horticultural 

 Society, and the Secretary of that Society wished me to give 

 you his warmest greetings and an invitation to attend their 

 meeting which will be held Janunary 24, 25 and 26, and asked 

 me to bring a few programs of the meeting. I also bring you 

 the greetings of the New York State Experiment Station at 

 (Geneva, and if any of you, either by auto trip or by rail. 



