CONTENTS. 



Proceedings : 



President's Address 1 



Reports of the Officers: 



Secretary's Report 2 



Treasurer's Report 12 



Reports of Standing Committees: 



On Membership 22 



On Exhibitions 23 



On New England Fruit Show 26 



On Markets and Transportation 28 



On Publicity 31 



On New Fruits 34 



On Injurious Insects 37 



Report of Demonstration Orchard \\'ork of the Fast 



Year. C. D. Jarvis 40 



Fruit Exhibitions and Exiiibition Fruit. Prof. F. C. Sears. 46 



Discussion of the Question List 60,176.230 



New York Methods of Growing and Marketing Apples. 



Lloyd S. Tenny 65 



Some Factors in the Successful Production of Apples. 



Pears and Grapes. Albert T. Repp 86 



Fertilizers for Fruits. Dr. E. H. Jenkins 97 



New England Fruit Growing Conditions as Observed by 



a Westerner. J. B. Castner 127 



The Society's Fourth Annual Banquet 149 



The Menu 151 



Governor Baldwin 152 



Dr. Luther 155 



Mayor Smith 161 



Mr. H. W. Collingwood 167 



Mr. Robert C. Ireton 175 



Results of Spraying Experiments in 1911. on Apples and 



Peaches. Dr. G. P. Clinton 188 



Sulphur-Arsenical Spray Injury and Its Prevention. Dr. 



T. P. Stewart 201 



