CONTENTS 



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Secretary's Annual Report 5 



Better Culture and More Trees 6 



The Small Fruits 6 



Meetings of the Executive Committee 7 



The Horticultural School 7 



Annual Meeting 9 



Cherryfieid Meeting lo 



Other matters 1 1 



Officers for 1902 12 



Members of the Society — Life 14 



Annual 14 



Treasurer's Report 16 



Business Transactions' 20 



Meetings of Executive Committee 20 



Public Meetings 21 



Resolutions 24 



Papers, Addresses and Discussions : 



Annual Invocation, by E. R. Smith 25 



Address of Welcome, by Major S. Clifford Belcher 26 



Response to Address of Welcome, by R. H. Libbey 28 



Annual Address, by Z. A. Gilbert 29 



Evaporating Apples, by W. H. Keith 34 



Canning Apples, by E. Herbert Dingley 41 



Fruit Growing in Piscataquis County, by Will E. Leland. . 49 



Ben Davis and What It Stands For, by Prof. F. A. Waugh, 56 



Plum Culture, by E. R. Mayo 63 



A Sermon on the Northern Spy, by Solon Chase 69 



Culture and Marketing of Fruit, by Prof. W. M. Munson. 74 



A Woman Among Small Fruits, by Lilla M. Scales 82 



Insecticides, Their Uses and Abuses, by Dr. Geo. M. 



Twitchell 89 



The Study of Plants on the Farm, by Mrs. V. P. DeCoster, 96 

 Ornamental Planting About the Farm, by Prof. Fred W. 



Card 99 



Fruit and Flower Study in Its Relation to the Primary 



Schools, by Prof. John Craig 103 



Miscellaneous, Dr. Fellows 



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