104 THE CONNECTICUT P0M0L0GICAL SOCIETY. 



England to come together, to talk over their plans, and de- 

 cide what was best for their interests. I like to look upon 

 a horticultural society as an educational institution, teaching 

 people what the best methods are, and also, hold up before 

 them an example and methods for carrying on their work, 

 and the advantages that are to be had from associated effort 

 which is growing more and more, in our country to-day. 



Mr. Chairman, I thank you for the compliment to the 

 Massachusetts Society in asking me to represent it on this 

 occasion. I wish the Connecticut Pomological Society every 

 success in its work in the future. It has done a good work 

 in the past, and I think it can look forward to greater accom- 

 plishments in the future, as can all the horticultural societies 

 of New England. (Applause). 



The Toastmaster : Some one has called the work of 

 handling an orchard the work of a botanist. Certainly fruit 

 growing has come to be a continual fight with insect pests 

 and fungous diseases. A man who prepares the ammunition 

 and the weapons for this sort of fight is with us to-night, and 

 we want to hear from Mr. H. L. Frost. 



Mr. H. L. Frost, of Arlington, Mass. : Mr. Toast- 

 master: As I was enjoying the dinner to-night, your Secre- 

 tary came to me and told me that he thought I was going 

 to be called upon. Well, I said that I did not know, that I 

 had not been notified, and that I didn't think I had better be 

 called upon. "Well," he said, "you have been abroad this 

 fall, and we want you to tell the people some of the things 

 you saw there." So you see the fix I am in, and I am going 

 to advise my friends who are here, and who go abroad, that 

 you are likely to get into the same predicament that I am in 

 perhaps. Your Secretary wanted me to give you a little out- 

 line of what I saw concerning the fruit interests abroad. 

 Well, I went into six countries, and found wormy apples in 

 every country that I visited. I was not up very well in the 

 languages of some of the countries that I visited, but every 

 time I saw a street peddler that had fruit I asked him for 



