6 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



suppose is expected of me as the President's address. I 

 have written it out so that I might take less time in inflict- 

 ing- it upon you. I will not take your attention but a few 

 moments. 



President's Address. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Connecticut 

 Pomological Society and our Friends, Greeting" : — 



The clock still ticks, the hours and days slip by and 

 another annual meeting of your Society is before us. The 

 year has been a busy one, on the farm, in the orchard, as 

 well as for the Society. Although much has been left 

 undone that we had hoped to have done, yet we feel that 

 some progress has been made. The road to success is 

 never smooth sailing. To the horticulturist the pitfalls 

 and apparent failures we continually meet are but signal 

 lights showing us the road to victory, casting a ray of 

 warning that each may learn from his neighbor where the 

 ice is thin. The farmer of to-day who would succeed must 

 not, does not, recognize defeat, but tramples under foot 

 every untoward circumstance, thus helping him to reach 

 the next step in the ladder of progress. 



In the address of your president last year reference was 

 made to the Conference of New England Governors, held 

 in Boston in November, 1908. One outgrowth of this Con- 

 ference, and the most prominent, and also the one we are 

 more particularly interested in, was the New England Fruit 

 Show, held in Boston, in October, 1909. Much credit is 

 due Ex-Governor Woodruff, who inspired this Conference. 

 The Fruit Show has been pronounced a success, affording 

 opportunities of education and enlightenment not only to 

 the farmers of New England, but to the consumers of New 

 England and the public at large throughout the Union. 

 Many inquiries have been made from all parts of the coun- 

 try in reerard to locating in this state for orchard work. 



