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Fruit,"" published in the West, remember there was on one 

 page an advertisement to induce you to come i^ut and buy 

 some of the land in that wonderful country, and it told the 

 story, as Mr. Drew did, of the quick growth, and the air, and 

 the beautiful fruit, and the high prices of raw land was from 

 $200 to $300 per acre, four or five years planted it was worth 

 $500, $800, up to $2,000 an acre. And on the other page 

 were 16 advertisements of insecticides, sprayers, and various 

 things to get rid of the troubles they had. That seemed to me 

 to tell the whole story. (Applause.) 



President Rogers : ^^'e shall be obliged to close this 

 discussion at this time. I am sorry to do so for it has cer- 

 tainly been very interesting and instructive, but time is 

 passing. 



The next on our program is an address, "The Virginia 

 Apple : How It is Grown and Marketed," by Hon. S. L. 

 Lupton of Winchester, Virginia. I have the pleasure of in- 

 troducing to you Hon. S. L. Lupton. whom many of you will 

 remember as a former visitor to our state. 



The Virginia Apple : How it is Grown and Marketed. 



By S. L. Lupton, Winchester, Virginia. 



Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen of the Connecticut 

 Pomological Society. Upon the invitation of your secretary. 

 I have come here from \'irginia to tell you about the A'irginia 

 apple, how it is grown and how it is marketed. I shall have 

 to ask you to aid me in my talk, being a modest man, but you 

 are anxious to know about the country and its products in the 

 great Shenandoah A^alley. Perhaps you would like first to 

 know something of the country in which these X'irginia apples 

 are grown, and I may say that the great plateau which lies 

 between the Blue Ridge Mountains on the east, and the 

 foothills of the AUe^hanies on the west, extends down from 



