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plant being to precool the fruit either for immediate transpor- 

 tation or for storage. 



In connection with the view of a monument which has been 

 erected to indicate the spot on which the original Baldwin 

 apple tree stood, the speaker called attention to the fact that a 

 number of monuments and tablets had been erected to mark 

 the spot where the orignal tree or plant stood of some fruit 

 which has become famous and which has contributed largely 

 to American pomology. 



Concluding his address, the speaker said : 



"I have talked quite a good many times with fruit-growers 

 in the East who have made extensive trips through the western 

 fruit-growing regions. They have come back home, feeling 

 more satisfied than ever with their surroundings ; feeling that 

 they are able to meet successfully in competition with what 

 their brother fruit-growers in the famous regions of the West 

 are able to force upon them ; and so if any of these views 

 make the fruit-growers here in Maine feel that their condi- 

 tions are just as good as they are anywhere else, possibly it 

 may give you a happy feeling — happiness leads to contentment 

 and contentment is great gain." 



ADDRESS ON EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE. 



By Prof. Frank A. Watjgh, of Amherst, Mass. 



Mr. President, members of the Maine State Pomological So- 

 ciety and Friends: 

 After Brother Gould has taken you all over North America 

 it only remains for me to show you about over the rest of the 

 world. Now the time has gone by when a man who comes 

 home from a trip to Europe is thereby made a curiosity. Any- 

 body can go to Europe who can grow a barrel of apples, and 

 pretty nearly for the price of a good barrel of apples nowa- 

 days. It is as easy to go to Europe as it is to go to Boston or 

 New York, and a good deal easier than it is to go to some of 

 the back towns of Maine. I suppose that there are a good 

 many people here tonight who have been to Europe, some of 



