114 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



All the apples we sell in Nova Scotia have to go two thousand 

 miles after leaving our town port, and that at an expense of 

 seventv-five cents a barrel ; in other words, before we can sfet 

 a cent on our apples, we usually have to pay $1.40 in expenses. 

 It seems to me in no place that I have been is the prospect for 

 growing apples so good as it is here in Connecticut, and if 

 there are many or any young men in the audience, I would 

 like to remind them of a remark that I heard to-night at din- 

 ner, that most men in the United States wait until they get 

 to be forty-five years of age before they begin to plant an 

 orchard. Now it is not too late to plant them then, but I want 

 to tell you to get at it when you are young men, and if you 

 have not money enough to buy a hundred or five hundred or 

 a thousand trees, buy the root grafts and take care of them, 

 and in a few years you can usually transplant them so that you 

 wouldn't know they had been moved, and you can have an 

 orchard of some size in a few years at very little expense, just 

 the expense of a few root grafts and the labor of converting 

 the woodland into fruit land. When you have done this, you 

 will find that it is not as expensive as you might anticipate; 

 very often such woodland will have as much wood on it as to 

 pay to cut it into shape. But you need not clear up the whole 

 woodland in order to plant your trees, if you are only going 

 to plant them 40 or 50 or 80 trees to the acre. You can get 

 them planted among the stumps, and if you don't want to 

 plant them that way, you can plant them more thickly by 

 taking out a line of stumps, and get them under way and get 

 them ready for bearing, so when you are in middle life you 

 will have a splendid large income from your orchard, and you 

 won't have to wait for trees to grow and bear fruit in your 

 old age. I thank you for your kindness in asking me again 

 to say a few words, and it is a pleasure to be here and observe 

 the splendid Society you have got in this small state. 



At this point a feature not scheduled on the program was 

 introduced. 



Miss Florence Scarlett McCall, an elocutionist, of Hartford, 

 gave an original sketch entitled, "Eve's Reception," which 

 included a very clever adaptation of the names of all the fruits. 



