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Tiave used commercial lime-sulfur washes and applied them 

 1;o apple foliage without injury and with benefit so far as 

 ■controlling fungus was concerned. Also used arsenate of 

 lead, two pounds to 50 gallons of water, for the codling 

 moth. Some New York State fruit growers are becoming 

 dissatisfied with the Bordeaux mixture, and are trying di- 

 luted lime-sulfur wash. I don't recommend it unreservedly. 



Then Pres. Clark introduced Wilfrid Wheeler, Secretary 

 N. E. Fruit Show, who opened the topic : 



LESSONS FROM THE NEW ENGLAND FRUIT SHOW. 



One thing I want to speak of is the relation of the Fruit 

 Growers to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. If the 

 Fruit Growers of Massachusetts want to increase the interest 

 in fruit growing, the proper thing to do is to join, as indi- 

 viduals, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and make 

 your influence felt there. That Society is at present more 

 interested in flowers and plants than in fruits. What is need- 

 ed is a larger number of fruit growers in that society, so 

 -come and join the society and work along the fruit interests. 



The Boston Fruit Show was organized to develop New 

 England, but since the show some of the states as individuals 

 have used the show to advance the interest of the state 

 rather than the interests of the whole section. The show 

 was started with the idea that the whole of New England 

 would be benefited, not to make a distinction between the 

 ►different states. The problem is for us to carry on New Eng- 

 land fruit growing as a whole. The prizes show that no one 

 section was better than any other section. Situation, soil, 

 and climate did not count for as much as individual effort 

 that was put into the work. That is what is going to carry 

 us to success or failure here in New England. There are 

 parts where the soils are better than others, but the fact re- 

 mains that good fruit was grown and exhibited at this show 

 ■from low heavy soil, from fine upland soil, from all sorts of 

 soil. The labor which sprayed, pruned and cared for the 

 trees is what brought the fruit to its highest development. 

 The Baldwins from New Hampshire proved to be better 

 than those from any other part of New England. Eighty 

 -per cent, of the fruit exhibited came from old apple trees, 

 trees 60 to 80 years old. Many of these trees had not had 

 ^e very best of care. This ought to be a great encourage- 



