NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 41 



Litchfield County — C. S. Phelps, Salisbury. 

 Windham County — E. E. Brown, Pomfret. 

 Tolland County — Prof. C. D. Jarvis, Storrs. 



President Gold: The next topic on our program for 

 this afternoon is an addiess by a gentleman who has been 

 doing some excellent work in orcharding lines. Some of 

 these apples in these boxes before us show some of the 

 things he has accomplished by taking an old orchard and 

 bringing it back to a condition of fruitfulness. I do not 

 know as it is necessary to make any comparison in order to 

 tell you that these apples are just as nice as those which 

 come from Oregon and Colorado. With one or two excep- 

 tions, all of these apples banked on the stage in front of me 

 are Connecticut apples. I believe there is one box here from 

 Maine and one from Massachusetts. The rest of them are 

 Connecticut-grown apples, and those grown in Connecticut I 

 wish to state have been grown by members of the Connecti- 

 cut Pomological Society. Now before introducing Mr. Drew, 

 who is going to speak to us on this subject, I want to call 

 your attention to this silver cup, and also to the medals be- 

 side it. These are some of the trophies which came to Con- 

 necticut from the Boston show. There are quite a number 

 of others which we have not been able to bring here. I hope 

 to have some of them later. There are also some ribbons 

 which we expect to have later to show you some of the things 

 that we accomplished at Boston. 



Now I will call on Mr. George A. Drew, Manager of 

 Conyers Farm, Greenwich, Conn., who will speak to us on 

 the subject of "Reclaiming the Old Apple Orchard for the 

 Production of Hioh Grade Fruit." 



