66 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



After having planted your orchard, trimmed and 

 sprayed your trees, if you have a crop of apples, pick them 

 carefully from the trees, grade and pack them wisely 

 (which means honestly and well) in clean, wholesome 

 packages, to suit your trade, and mark them so that when 

 your purchaser or receiver gets used to your brands and 

 marks, he can tell exactly what each package contains 

 without opening it, or so that the next customer, when 

 shown one package, can be guaranteed others marked the 

 same will be just as good. Such packing of good fruit will 

 make a ready sale above usual prices. 



To be modest, and keep within safe bounds, we of 

 New England can say that when we choose our best va- 

 rieties, and grow them under favorable conditions, with 

 proper care, we can probably produce apples which cannot 

 be excelled in quality, and, when well graded and packed, 

 will be accepted by the best trade in our cities at prices 

 usually quite satisfactory. 



Perhaps the degree of success one can attain may 

 depend somewhat on his love for his work, his willing- 

 ness to work, and the amount of work he can do. Some- 

 times when asked how such fruit can be grown, I have 

 answered, "One must Jove his trees," which, to many, means 

 but little, as it seems to them that a tree, not being a 

 sentimental thing, does not respond to sentiment. But 

 have you not often noticed that old ladies, who seem quite 

 sentimental over their flowers, usually get the best results 

 from them ; and so may not the proposition be explained 

 from the fact that the man who loves his trees and his 

 work will be more thoughtful of them, more watchful, al- 

 ways anticipating their needs, and ever ready to protect 

 them from harm? With my favorite trees this is my 

 method. 



President Gold: Mr. Knapp is here, and we are 

 going to ask him some questions. 



