TIVENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING 25 



We want to thank the members, who have furnished the 

 fruit for these exhibitions during the past season, for we are 

 aware that the crop was short, injured by the heat, and other- 

 wise making it hard to select perfect fniit. We especially 

 want to thank our President, Mr. Rogers, for the quantities 

 of fine fruit furnished and his untiring efforts to make our 

 exhibitions a credit to the Pomological Society. 



Your exhibition committee were very much interested 

 and also active in the Connecticut exhibit at the New Eng- 

 land Fruit Show in Boston, which was a decided success, 

 but a report of this will be given by the special committee 

 who had this in charge. 



Respectfullv submitted, 



L. C. ROOT, 

 A. G. GULLEY. 

 H. R. REED, 



Committee. 



Mr. Root : Just a word further, Mr. President, your 

 committee has prepared a resolution which I should like to 

 present for the consideration of the Society. 



President Rogers: Will you please read it, Mr. Root? 



Mr. Root: Resolved, That is the sense of this meet- 

 ing that where premiums of silver are offered at exhibitions 

 of this Society they should be sterling silver and. if possible, 

 to be of a useful nature rather than ornamental. 



The Committtee on Exhibitions has had that in mind 

 for some time, Mr. Chairman. The premiums that we offer 

 ought to be of good quality. Be it ever so small, the Society 

 would like to have, I am sure, whatever premiums are of- 

 fered of the best, and therefore we present this resolution. 



President Rogers: What is your pleasure in regard 

 to this resolution? 



]\Ir. Gold : I would second that resolution, Mr. Presi- 

 dent, and most earnestly urge the acceptance of it by the So- 

 ciety. I think Mr. Root is riglu in liis remarks that our pre- 



