PART TWO 



A Brief Record of Field Meetings, 



Exhibitions, Institutes, etc., 



held in 1910. 



Summer Field Meetings, 1910. 



Unlike most of the horticultural organizations of other 

 states, which are content with holding' an annual conven- 

 tion and perhaps one meeting during the summer season, 

 the Connecticut Pomological Society has always followed 

 the practice of getting its members together as often as 

 possible throughout the year. It firmly believes in keep- 

 ing in touch with the membership at every season of the 

 year, thus making the Society a vital factor in the life and 

 work of the fruit growers of the state. 



For this reason the summer field meetings have be- 

 come a permanent feature of the Society's work, and the 

 great success of these popular outdoor gatherings, year 

 after year, has done much for the promotion of the fruit 

 interests of the state, as well as adding to the prestige and 

 value of the organization itself. No indoor gathering can 

 be made half so interesting, instructive and helpful as these 

 meetings held right out in the open field or orchard, sur- 

 rounded by the growing plants and trees as object les- 

 sons. An observing man or woman interested in all the 

 varied problems of fruit culture will certainly learn more 

 in a day spent at one of these field meetings than is possi- 

 ble in any other way, and this is especially true when the 

 gathering takes place on a fruit farm where the best nieth- 



