30 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



EVENING. 



Care and Embellishment of Cemeteries, 



John G. Barker, Supt. Forest Hill Cemetery, Jamaica Plains, Mass. 

 Agriculture — Its Present Condition and Future Prospects, 



Prof. Elijah Cook, Manchester. 



WEDNESDAY, A. M. 



Better Care of Orchards, J. W. True, New Gloucester. 



Orchard Fertilizers, Prof. Walter Ballentine, State College. 



Fruit Growing in Aroostook, Hon. James Nutting. Perham. 



AFTERNOON. 



Fruit Culture — Its Possibilities in Maine, 



D. H. Knowlton, Farmington. 

 Inexpensive Means of Fertility. 



Poultry, Dr. Geo. M. Twitchell, Lecturer State Grange. 



Swine, Prof. I. O. Winslow, St. Albans. 



Sheep, B}^ Discussion. 



EVENING. 



Poem — A Suggestion. Miss E. L. Pope, Manchester. 



Plants for House Culture and Mode of Treatment, 



W. H. Allen, Gardener and Horticulturist, Insane Asylum, Augusta. 

 Our Homes and How to Improve Them, 



John G. Barker, Jamaica Plains. 



The programme was supplemented by several important papers, 

 letters and discussions. As a rule the various subjects were ably 

 treated, and almost without exception b}' speakers engaged in horti- 

 cultural affairs. The papers, discussions, &c., following clearly 

 indicate that Maine fruit growers are working in the right direction. 

 The papers deserve careful reading by all interested in the culture 

 of fruits. 



The display of fruit was of excellent quality, and represented the 

 best fruit growing sections of the State. The exhibition made by S. 

 C. Harlow of Bangor, one of our oldest members, was the best 

 single collection shown for years at a winter meeting. Other col- 

 lections in quality were equall}^ as good but none contained so large 

 a number of varieties. The autumn and early winter specimens 

 were in a fine state of preservation. 



It is highly proper in this connection for the officers of the society 

 to express their gratitude to the members ot the Bangor Horticultural 

 Society for the cordial reception given to the fruit growers of the 



