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WEDNESDAY, MARCH U', 1?0S 

 J.30 P. M, 



The first business of the afternoon session was listening- 

 to the report of the nominating committee. It was: 



JOHN W. CLARK, President, 

 S. T. MAYNARD, Vice-President, 

 C A. WHITNEY, Secretary-Treasurer, 

 J. LEWIS ELLSWORTH, Auditor, 



DIRECTORS 

 ESSEX COUNTY: 

 SUFFOLK COUNTY : 

 NORFOLK COUNTY : 

 PLYMOUTH COUNTY: 

 MIDDLESEX COUNTY: 



North Hadley 



Northboro 



Upton 



Worcester 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY; 

 HAMPDEN COUNTY : 

 BERKSHIRE COUNTY: 

 FRANKLIN COUNTY: 



E. A. Emerson, J. J. H. Gregory. 



George Cruickshank. 



Abel F. Stevens. 



Augustus Pratt, Walton Hall. 



C. F. Haywood, George F. Wheeler,. 



E. R. Farrar, M. P. Palmer, C. S. 



Pratt. 

 J. Maxwell Clark. 

 E. Bliss, L. W. Rice. 

 George F. Walker, R. H. Race. 

 M. H. Vincent, E. F. Copeland. 



WORCESTER COUNTY : George C. Rice, S. J. Emerson, Elliott. 



Moore, Walter D. Ross, E. A. Her- 

 sey, Adin A. Hixon. 



This report was unanimously accepted, and it was vot- 

 ed that the Secretary cast one ballot for the list who were 

 then declared elected. 



President Whitney then introduced. J. H. Hale, of Con- 

 necticut and Georgia.. 



PEACH GROWING IN NEW ENGLAND AS COMPARED 



WITH OTHER SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY 



Peaches have been grown in Massachusetts for consid- 

 erably more than a century and in different parts of Amer- 

 ica the same length of time, but up to 25 or 30 years ago it 

 was believed that favored portions like Deleware, and along 

 the lakes, were the places where peaches could and were to> 



