Proceedings of the 

 Ninth Annual Meeting* 



HE Connecticut Poraological Society con- 

 vened in its ninth annual meeting- at Jewell 

 Hall, Hartford, Wednesday morning, Feb- 

 ruary 14, 1900. President J. H. Hale called 

 the meeting to order at 10 o'clock. The gath- 

 ering of members and others was unusually large at the 

 opening session and the lively interest and increasing 

 attendance was a marked feature of the entire meeting. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



In his annual address to the Society President Hale 

 said: 



As we come together again in this annual meeting, I 

 am pleased to see such a goodly number with iis at this 

 opening session, and I also want to congratulate the 

 Society on the bright and happy condition of Connecticut 

 fruit growers at this time, when fruit buds of all kinds are 

 sound and alive, with promise of great crops of fruit the 

 coming season. This is a great contrast to one year ago, 

 when the great blizzard of the middle of February had 

 blasted so many fruit buds, besides weakening and killing 

 many thousands of trees in all parts of America. How- 

 ever, prompt attention to the injured trees by more than 

 the usual amount of pruning and thorough cultivation 

 through the summer of '99, left the Connecticut fruit 

 growers at the end of the season in a less damaged condi- 

 tion than those of most States in the Union, and while 

 1899 was a season of unusual drought, wherever fruit plan- 



