FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING 13 



FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING (1896) 



This meeting of the Pomological Society was held at 

 Jewell Hall, Hartford, February 25 and 26, i8g6. The 

 programme of the meeting was as follows : 



PROGRAMME 



FIRST DAV 



Annual Address of President J. H. Hale 



Report of Secretary G. S. Butler 



Report of Treasurer R. A. Moore 



Reports of Committees. i 



How to Start a Young Orchard Prof. A. G. Gulley, 



Professor of Horticulture, Storrs College 



Raspberries and Currants : Culture and Marketing 



A. G. Sharp, Richmond, Mass. 



The Profits of Water in Horticulture Prof. H. E. Van Deman, 



Late Pomologist, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 



SECOND DAY 



The New Strawberry Culture L. J. Farmer, Pulaski, N. Y. 



The Grape in North America : History and Culture 



Prof. W. E. Britton, 



Horticulturist, Conn. Exp. Station 



Nut Culture for Connecticut Prof. H. E. Van Deman 



Election of Officers for Ensuing Year. 



A Year's Experience in Spraying an Apple Orchard 



Dr. W. C. Sturgis, 

 Mycologist, Conn. Exp. Station 



Numerous questions and discussions, in addition to the 

 above, filled out two days of timely and practical work of 

 great value to the large number of fruit growers attending. 



President Hale, in his annual address, reviewed the 

 fruit crop results of the past season of '95. "Fruit grow- 

 ing has become one of the most profitable branches of 

 farming in our state. The apple crop is most important 

 of all, and still there are thousands of acres more in Con- 

 necticut that might be made to produce apples to advan- 

 tage. As showing the value and extent of some of our 

 fruit crops, note the $500,000 crop of peaches, with a total 



