288 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Peach Field Meeting, August 9, 1911. 



FRUIT GROWERS' FIELD DAY. 



The Connecticut Pomological Society 



will hold 



A Big Field Meeting 



at 



W. A. Henry & Son's "Blue Hills" Farm 



Wallingford, Connecticut, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 1911. 



The Messrs. Henry cordiall}^ invite the members of the Pomo- 

 logical Society and all interested fruit growers to visit their exten- 

 sive fruit farm and orchards at Cook Hill, Wallingford, Wednesday, 

 the ninth. Their orchards are among the best and most promising 

 in Connecticut and are well worth a visit by every fruit grower in 

 the state. 



Blue Hills farm is finely located on the range of hills lying be- 

 tween Wallingford and Hamden, two and one-half miles from Wal- 

 lingford ; comprises some three hundred acres, one hundred of which 

 are already planted to orchard fruits.. 



In 1904 the Henrys, coming to Connecticut from Wisconsin, and 

 seeing the possibilities in New England soil, purchased three hun- 

 dred acres of neglected land and in six years have developed, from 

 brush land and woods, a wonderfully promising fruit farm. 



There are some fifty acres in peach orchards, which promise 

 this season a yield of about fifteen thousand baskets ; also fifty acres 

 of young apple trees, just coming into bearing, besides orchards of 

 sweet and sour cherries, pears, quinces, etc. 



The visitor will see illustrations of thick planting of peaches, 

 new ideas in pruning, cultivation and spraying, and in every depart- 

 ment of this farm, modern methods of managing a plant wholly de- 

 voted to fruit growing. 



Don't miss the opportunity afforded by this splendid meeting to. 

 visit one of the finest orchards in the best peach section of the state ! 



The gathering will be made especially a 



Great Peach and Field Meeting ! 

 and the harvesting, shipping, and marketing of this season's peach 

 crop will receive special attention. 



Many fruit buyers and commission men frqni all the large mar- 

 kets will he on hand, and representatives of the New York, New 



