274 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Connecticut at the New England Fruit Show. 



While the New England Fruit Show and its very grati- 

 fying results has been freely touched upon in the various re- 

 ports presented at the annual meeting of the Pomological 

 Society, yet the importance of the event warrants a some- 

 what more extended account here, especially in view of the 

 prominence in the Show of Connecticut-grown fruit. 



Perhaps a brief word concerning the inception and de- 

 velopment of the Fruit Show would not be out of place. On 

 Nov. 23 and 24, 1908, a New England Conference, called by 

 the governors of the New England States, was held in Bos- 

 ton, at which orchards and forests, sea products and highways 

 were discussed. As an outcome of that meeting the officials 

 of the New England States in charge of their agricultural 

 and horticultural interests met at Boston in December to con- 

 sider the papers read at that meeting, and to propose uniform 

 laws for all New England on subjects connected with it. That 

 meeting did not result in an undue burdening of the statute 

 books with legislation, but it did result in this present New 

 England Fruit Show. At that meeting were men from all the 

 New England States who were intensely interested in orchard- 

 ing, and it was agreed that in no way could the business be 

 better revived and stimulated than by holding such an expo- 

 sition as this. With these men to resolve was to act, and a 

 temporary organization was formed at that time, which took 

 up the preliminary arrangements and managed them until 

 superseded by the present corporation known as the New 

 England Fruit Show. 



J. Lewis Ellsworth, Secretary of the Massachusetts State 

 Board of Agriculture, was chosen President. Wm. P. Rich, 

 Secretary of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Vice" 

 President. Wilfrid Wheeler, of Concord, Mass., Secretary, 

 and A. Warren Patch, of Boston, Treasurer. A State Vice- 

 President was selected by each of the New England States. 



