46 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Charles E. Lyman, of ^Iiddlefield, from Middlesex 

 County. 



H. R. Howard, of Union, from Tolland County. 



President Rogers : That conipletes the committee, 

 and if there is nothing more regarding this matter we will 

 proceed with our program. 



We are to listen now to a gentleman from one of our 

 nearby states, Professor Sears, pomologist of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College. It gives me very great pleasure 

 to introduce to you Professor Sears of Amherst, who will 

 give us a paper on "Fruit Exhibitions and Exhibition Fruit." 



Professor Sears : Mr. President and Fellow Fruit 

 Growers : I am glad to be here, and was particularly glad 

 to notice that most everybody else that has been called up on 

 this platform this morning has read a paper, because, con- 

 trary to my usual custom, I am going to read a paper. I was 

 afraid I should fall down if I restricted myself simply to 

 notes. Of course, a paper has one distinct advantage, and 

 that is the speaker knows when he gets through and the 

 audience are especially interested in that a good many times. 

 ( Laughter. ) While, as a rule, I like to talk to people rather 

 than read to them, I thought it best to put down on paper 

 what I had to say this morning. 



Fruit Exhibitions and Exhibition Fruit. 



By Prof. F. C. Sears, 

 Pomologist, Massachusetts Agricultural College. Amherst. 



A fruit show to be a success ought to be educational; and' 

 it ought to educate both the grozver and the consumer. The 

 old type of show, consisting wholly of plates of fruit, was 

 interesting and beautiful, and educated a man so far as recog- 

 nizing varieties is concerned, but it did very little for him so 

 far as value of varieties is concerned, and nothing at all as 

 to the growing and marketing of his fruit. A man might 



