SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING 21 



gramme, and caused the« meeting to extend over three days 

 instead of two. The original programme ran as follows : 



PROGRAMME 

 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY I 



Opening Session 

 Annual Address of the President. 

 Reports of "Secretary and Treasurer. 

 Reports of Standing Committees. 



Horticultural Theories Prof. A. G. Gulley, 



Prof, of Hort., Storrs College 

 New Varieties of Small Fruits G. S. Butler, Cromwell 



A/ierfioon Session 



A Big Job for the Little Man H. W. Collingwood, 



Managing Editor "Rural New-Yorker" 



Horticultural Reminiscences T. S. Gold, West Cornwall 



Japan Plums and Other New Fruits H. L. Fairchild, Nichols 



WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 



Morning Session 



Recent Experiment Station "Work of Interest to the Fruit- 



Grower Prof. W. E. Britton, 



Horticulturist, Conn. Exp. Station 

 Fruit Illustration J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa. 



Afternoon Session 



Election of Officers for Ensuing Year. 



Work and Results at Fruitvale Farm Mortimer Whitehead, 



Middlebush, N. J. 



The Relation of Foliage to Fruit N. S. Platt, 



Conn. State Pomologist 



Apple Possibilities in Connecticut 



Discussion, opened by Edwin Hoyt, New Canaan ; 

 G. F. Platt, Milford, and Lucien Bass, Windham 



THE president's ADDRESS 



In his annual address. President Hale touched briefly 

 upon the growth and prosperity of the Society and the 

 growing interest in pomolog}' in all parts of the state, 



