1 16 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



was very weak. From these humble beginning-s have grown 

 our present immense trade in fruit. I am optimistic and 

 believe that the future has even greater development than we 

 have known during the past. Comparatively few apples at 

 that time were shipped into Boston market by rail. Now 

 they come from practically all over the world. An Austrian 

 farmer told me, two years ago, that he fully expected to ship 

 apples of a certain variety to this country and find a profitable 

 market for them. 



As an illustration of how the market has developed, I will 

 say that 20 years ago I passed through the city of Savannah. 

 I hunted everywhere to try and find an apple to eat, but I was 

 unable to do so. There were bananas and oranges, but no 

 apples. A little over a month ago, I went through the same 

 city of Savannah. At every fruit store, and on every fruit 

 stand, there were as many apples as oranges oiYered for sale. 

 In the daily papers of Savannah, large advertisements 

 announced the arrival of a shipment of Northern apples. So 

 far as I could see, the apples were eaten by the common people 

 in that Southern city as freely as oranges were. One Italian 

 had apples, oranges and bananas on his stand to represent the 

 American flag. It seemed to me there was a most hopeful 

 sign, both in development of the apple trade and in the devel- 

 opment of that patriotic expression in an Italian. 



Going down through Florida, I travelled with a party of 

 Cubans on their way to Havana. It came time for eating their 

 lunch, and they pulled out a large basket of food. To my 

 surprise they had, in connection with sandwiches and cake, a 

 dozen fine Baldwin apples. They prefer them to oranges. 

 They had rarely eaten any before in their home in Cuba, but 

 expected to continue to eat this fruit. Now let us think what 

 this development means ; spreading of the value of the apple 

 all over the South and into Cuba. You may take that as an 

 indication of what advance has already been made, and what 

 you may expect in the future. What kind of an apple do peo- 

 ple want? Where are these apples to be grown? How are 

 they to be sold and distributed, and who is to benefit from 

 their sale ? It is simply a question of bringing out the unde- 

 veloped possibilities of markets, varieties, and sections. To 



