l5o THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAE SOCIETY. 



Now if I should come from Hood River or Wenatchee, 

 I would probably leave that statement just where it is, and 

 leave you to go away thinking that the whole orchard had 

 done so well. The fact of the business is, that the corner of 

 the orchard which you see there, where the apples are some 30 

 or 40 feet hig-h, are by the road. The apples hung down over 

 the road, the limbs almost meeting, some 30 feet above the 

 ground, and that is in one corner of his orchard just below 

 the barnyard, which shows the result of fertilization and 

 careful management. 



Air. Bell has about 7^ or 80 acres in orchard, no other part 

 of which does so well as the 15 or 20 or perhaps 30 trees. 



I will show you just one more picture. I have brought 

 along another orchard scene which shows one of those sod 

 orchards that Mr. Hale objects to so seriously. One that has 

 never been ploughed, to my knowledge, since the trees were 

 planted, and the orchard scenes represent the apples being 

 packed for export, and they go direct from the orchard to 

 London. I am not cjuite familiar enough with that orchard, 

 whicli is three or four miles from me, to know how much fruit 

 it produces, but something over 5,000 bushels. 



Now I shall try in the remainder of the time allotted to 

 me, to tell you some of the bad things as well as some of the 

 good things. Personally, I have too much orchard ; but then, 

 you know you will always find some fellow in every neighbor- 

 hood who wants to be the biggest thing in the neighborhood, 

 and it has been a source of satisfaction to me, up to this time, 

 to have the largest "orchard in that section, and I am going 

 to try and have the best orchard in that section. Now if I 

 fail in having the best orchard, then I am going to sell some 

 of my acreage, and still try again for the best instead of the 

 biggest. (Applause.) 



However, there is some apology for my undertaking 350 

 acres of apples, for, as a lad in my father's orchard on my 

 father's farm in \^irginia, I helped to plant the first commer- 

 cial apple orchard ever planted in that great valley, and I own 

 that orchard to-day. I have discovered that I am still quite 



