178 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Lyman : I wanted to ask one question in reference 

 to sulphur, — whether this ground sulphur will have the same 

 effect as the flour of sulphur with the self-boiled mixture? 



Prof. Scott: We never tried the ground sulphur. It 

 ought to be tried. I presume if it is finely ground it will be 

 just as good. 



Mr. Lyman : It works all right, in my experience, in 

 the boiled. 



Prof. Scott : We are going to try it this year. I would 

 not want to say that it would be entirely satisfactory until 

 it had been tried. 



President Gold: We will now have the pleasure of 

 listening to Mr. Lyman. He will talk to us on "The 

 Present and Future of Connecticut Peach Growing." 



The Present and Future of Connecticut 

 Peach Growing. 



By Chas. E. Lyman, Middlefield. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : It is with 

 the greatest pleasure that I come before you, yet I hesi- 

 tated some time before I consented, at the request of Secre- 

 tary Miles, to address you here to-day. A week ago I 

 was very much gratified. A couple of friends were talking, 

 and one of them said: "Lyman has improved." Well, I 

 felt, as you can see, that if that was the case there was 

 hope for me yet. 



Now we have heard the apple question discussed here 

 yesterday and to-day very thoroughly. It has been pretty 

 well gone into in the sessions of this meeting, but the ques- 

 tion of peach growing is just coming up apparently. In 

 the first place, I would like to say that I have observed 

 that the peach situation here in Connecticut is a little 



