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celery in at such a time, and if we don't oret it in in time, it 

 is a failure. If the soil is very dry it won't grow, and even 

 after it is set it has to be watered, and in a great many cases 

 it means the difference between success and failure in onr 

 celery crop. 



President Rogers : I wish we had more time so we could 

 question Mr. Hall, but the time is slipping by, and I think 

 we will have to take up other matters of business. We have 

 several reports to hear yet. 



The New England Fruit show report is next, and I be- 

 lieve Mr. C. L. Gold is chairman. 



Mr. C. L. Gold: I will just call your attention to these 

 apples on the stage and the apples exhibited downstairs. Was 

 it possible to find such apples here in Connecticut two or three 

 years ago? You cotdd not do it anywhere. To-day we are 

 growing such apples as you have seen yesterday and to-day, 

 and the fruit show in Boston two years ago was very largely 

 responsible for the improvement in the quality of the apples 

 we have got here now. I don't mean to say that the fruit show 

 was altogether responsible for it, but very largely. It fired 

 us with enthusiasm all through Connecticut and New England. 

 The New England fruit show is expecting to hold another 

 show this coming fall ; they have met and organized and elect- 

 ed officers, and are going ahead and making arrangements tor 

 the show. It is up to us people here in Connecticut to go 

 there and put up a respectable show for Connecticut. x\nd 

 for this exhibition undoubtedly liberal premiums will be 

 offered. We all know that Connecticut took a first class stand 

 at that show two years ago, and now you have got to get busy, 

 and mightv busy, too, to maintain the position which we occu- 

 pied then. The other fellows are going to come back there 

 with a determination to put up a better show than we, and we 

 want to hold just as good a position next fall as we can, and 

 I want to have you begin right off to grow some fruit to carry 

 to the show, something that is creditable to the state. 



