FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 19 



Auditors' Certificate." 



Hartford, Conn, Feb. i, 1905. 

 We liave examined the accounts and vouchers of the Treasurer, 

 Mr. R. A. Moore, and find them correct. 



GEO. W. STAPLES, 

 ALBERT B. PLANT, 



Auditing Committee. 



The President: Gentlemen, you have heard the report of 

 the treasurer. If there is no objection, it will be received 

 and published in the proceedings. 



I will now call for the report of the committee on exhibi- 

 tions held during- the last year. Mr. Manchester, who is the 

 chairman of that committee, I understand can not be present, 

 so the report will be given by Mr. E. R. Bennett, of the 

 committee. 



Report of Committee on Exhibitions. 



Mr. Bennett: Mr. President, up to yesterday I supposed 

 that Mr. Manchester would be able to be here to make this 

 report, and consequently I have not much of a report to pre- 

 sent, excepting as to the number of plates of various kinds 

 of fruit that we had at the Rockville Exhibition. As to the 

 other exhibitions, I have no report at all to make. 



At the Rockville Fair, as a good many of you know, there 

 was a pretty good exhibition of different kinds of fruit. Of 

 apples, single plates, there were 337, and with the different 

 collections made a total of 725, the total number of plates 

 without counting the canned goods and the fruits put up in 

 glass. Of the canned fruits there were 192, that is, of the 

 various kinds of fruits, and of pickles, jellies, etc., 177. 

 Plums, 55 plates; peaches, 133 plates; quinces, 6 plates; 

 grapes, 133 plates; pears, 161 plates; nuts, 27 plates. Mak- 

 ing a grand total of 1,234 plates. 



I have no particular recommendations to make, but one 

 thing I noticed in the judging of the fruit and which I should 

 like to recommend to the members of the Society, inasmuch 

 as one of the objects of our association is to raise the standard 

 of fruits, and that is. that the association make it clearlv 



