74 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Here was the Connecticut display just on the opposite side of 

 the hall from the Maine display, right across the way, showing 

 the arrangement of their fruit and their bank of fruit, with the 

 fancy baskets and crates of peaches. Connecticut, of course, 

 has the peach, and Mr. Hale, the man who was to have been 

 here to speak, is the peach king of the United States. 



We have next a nearer view, showing the basket in the fore- 

 ground with the prize ribbon, a basket made up of pears, grapes, 

 peaches, etc. 



This view, I wish you all could have time to study and under- 

 stand just what it means. If you read the chart you will see 

 what it says. Those circular lines show the diameter of the 

 trunks of the trees upon which fertilizer has been used. You 

 see the smallest one marked, "no fertilizer," the one at the left, 

 "ashes," and so on, and the piles of apples that correspond to 

 them. 



The next slide shows an elegant display of fancy fruit. 



This is that dwarf pear tree I told you about, and just in the 

 background, at the right you see the dwarf apple tree. The size 

 of the fruit is very large compared with the tree, as most of you 

 know if you have grown a dwarf tree. It was one of those 

 trees set in a pot with the fruit growing on it. Many thought 

 the apples were stuck on or wired on, but they were genuine 

 articles. 



This slide shows two plates of contrasted fruit. The fruit 

 was taken from the same orchard, one from trees sprayed, the 

 other unsprayed ; the one covered with San Jose scale, the other 

 free. Those were Baldwins and were exhibited by Dr. Fernald 

 of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. There is a true 

 example of the efTect of the San Jose scale when left to run 

 riot. Massachusetts is full of San Jose scale, as is in fact almost 

 every other state but Maine. We have a little of it but we are 

 going to exterminate it. if we have to cut down the tree. 



Some of you may have had your orchards stripped this last 

 year by the forest caterpillar, so-called. In October, in prepar- 

 ing the entomological exhibit, we had occasion to see the effect 

 of that caterpillar. I had Mr. Yeaton go to an orchard that I 

 know had been thoroughly stripped by this pest, with the result 

 that we found the trees in bloom, blossoms all over them, where 



