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and better. The exhibit is not for competition, and we will pay 

 growers market prices for choice fruit, and the grower's name will 

 appear in the exhibit. The earlier varieties are to be put in cold 

 storage at once, and during the fair we want fresh fruit sent in 

 each day. Fruit should be wrapped and packed in six-basket car- 

 riers, or in peach baskets if sent direct to the Fair. If you are too 

 busy to get the fruit ready, notify the Secretary, and someone will 

 be sent to pack and ship the fruit. The Hartford Cold Storage 

 Company, Hartford. Connecticut, are ready to store any exhibition 

 fruit. Always ship by express. The Society will pay expressage. 

 Let us know at once if we can depend on you for some choice 

 peaches. Also, we urge you to send some fruit to Charter Oak to 

 compete for premiums, which are very liberal. The premium list 

 has been sent you. It will pay you to make an exhibit. But don't 

 forget that the Society wants to make a splendid peach show, that 

 will be creditable to the whole state. Will you help? 



Our Fourteenth Annual Fall Exhibition will be held at Berlin, 

 September twenty-sixth to twenty-ninth, in connection with the 

 State Fair. Every member should plan now to make an exhibit at 

 Berlin. There will be large premiums and several special prizes to 

 compete for. Premium list will be issued early in September. The 

 Berlin Fair expects us to make a great show. Be sure and exhibit 

 at least a few plates of your best fruit, and don't fail to attend. 



The Danbury Fair, October second to seventh. This big fair 

 has proposed to our Society to make an exhibit of fruit, and we have 

 accepted. It will not be for competition, but intended as an educa- 

 tional feature and to demonstrate what Connecticut is producing in 

 the way of fine fruits. At least seventy-five boxes of apples will 

 be needed, as well as other seasonable fruits. All growers who will 

 contribute exhibition fruit or have the same for sale are requested 

 to correspond with the Secretary, and arrangements will be made to 

 pack and ship the same. We want a representative exhibit and it 

 offers a fine chance to advertise your fruit. The Danbury premium 

 list will be mailed you. Better decide to send some fruit for com- 

 petition. 



New England Fruit Show at Boston, October twenty- fourth to 

 twenty-eighth. Last and greatest of all the fall shows will be the 

 one at Boston, and for which our state is pledged to provide a big 

 fruit display — the very best possible to make this season. Mr. 

 Charles L. Gold, West Cornwall, Connecticut, is in charge of the 



