130 THE CONNECTICUT P0M0L0G1CAL SOCIETY. 



A motion that the Secretary's report be accepted and 

 placed on file was made, seconded and passed. 



President Gold: Before going further I wish to call 

 attention to this box of apples. (The President indicated a 

 box upon the stage). They came from the state of Maine. 

 They were sent down here by Mr. Geo. W. Staples, one of 

 our members, and it will pay you all to give a careful look at 

 these apples. I think they are some of the handsomest 

 Northern Spies that we ever looked at. Mr. Staples was 

 present at the Fruit Show in Boston, and exhibited some very 

 fine fruit there. 



The next report is a report from our Treasurer, Mr. 

 Orrin Gilbert. 



Treasurer Gilbert: Mr. President and Fellow Mem- 

 bers of the Connecticut Pomological Society : There are 

 about ten pages of your Treasurer's report altogether, and I 

 do not believe anybody wants to listen to it this morning. 1 

 can give you a general statement off-hand of the condition 

 of the funds. February 4th, 1909, there was a balance on 

 hand of $177.88. I have received from annual memberships 

 $518; the appropriation from the state, $1,550; from all oth- 

 er sources, $339.05, making the total receipts $2,584 02. I 

 have paid out on orders of the President and Secretary 

 $2,435.79, leaving a balance on hand to date of $148.23. 



On account of the New England Fruit Show, the state, 

 you will remember, appropriated $500 ; from other sources I 

 have received $568.54, making the total receipts on that spe- 

 cial account $1,068.54. I have drawn out on orders of the 

 Secretary and President, $1,068.54. That account balances 

 exactly. 



With the addition the past year of $50 and the interest 

 added, we now have in the Berlin Savings Bank, $247.68 

 There is in hand $10, which was received too late for de- 

 posit, making the total of our invested fund $257.68. 



