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Nomination seconded, and Mr. Hubbard was then ap- 

 pointed by vote of the meeting. 



Vice-President Dt^ew : Something over a year ago Pro- 

 fessor Sears and myself had the pleasure of making a trip into 

 the apple regions of the West. It was a most interesting 

 trip. We met man\- prominent fruit growers, and of all the 

 people, at least of all these people we met, there was not one 

 from whom we got more useful information than the gentle- 

 man whom we have with us to-day. I am pleased to intro- 

 duce to you Mr. John B. Castner, of Hood River, Oregon. 

 Mr. Castner is on our program to give us an address on "New 

 England Fruit Growing Conditions as Observed by a West- 

 erner." 



New England Fruit Growing Conditions 

 as Observed by a Westerner. 



By J. B. Castner, Hood River, Oregon. 



Mr. President and Members of the Connecticut Pomological 

 Society : 



It is certainly a great pleasure to be with you during the 

 meeting of your Society. As a general rule at all such meet- 

 ings as this it is customary to pick out the best things that 

 exist in your particular locality and discuss only those. I 

 know this is true with us in Hood River, Oregon, and I be- 

 lieve it is true with all other sectio'US, but I am going to 

 break away from this custom to-day and point out some of 

 the faults as well as the good qualities in the eastern fruit 

 business. 



Apple conditions in New England as observed by a 

 western grower, or I might make it a comparison of the in- 

 dustry in New England and in the Pacific Northwest. Last 

 fall I had the pleasure of coming to New England as sort 

 of a missionary. The trip East was for the purpose of de- 

 monstrating box packing and grading. It was an experiment 

 thought of by some of the progressive growers who have 



