1 82 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



time will certainly receive a royal welcome, and have a general 

 good time, and I want to say a word about the fruit exhibi- 

 tions and the premiums. Through the kindness and liber- 

 ality of the American Institute, they have offered a very 

 nice premium list ; for instance, one is for the best ten vari- 

 eties of apples, $10.00, and that is a premium worth striving 

 for, and I hope some of your exhibitors, if they have fruit that 

 is suitable to be taken there, will make it a point to select 

 their very best specimens. They can get a copy of these 

 premium lists, and, if they can't go, send their fruit there, 

 and it will be put on the tables in a proper manner, and they 

 certainly will get just as good a showing for the first and 

 second prizes as their fruit merits. As a member of the 

 New York State association, I extend to every member of this 

 association a cordial invitation to be present at this union 

 meeting. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



The time having arrived, according to the order of exer- 

 cises, for the election of officers. President Gulley called for 

 the report of the Committee on Nominations. 



Mr. L. C. Root, chairman of that committee, then sub- 

 mitted the following list of nominations for the various 

 officers : — 



For President — J. C. Eddy, of Simsbury. 



Vice-President — J. H, Putnam, of Litchfield. 

 Secretary— H. C. C. Miles, of Milford. 

 Treasurer — Orrin Gilbert, of Middletown. 



County Vice-Presidents : 



Hartford — A. C. Innis, Berlin. 

 New Haven — John R. Barnes,, Yalesville. 

 Fairfield — Stephen Hoyt, New Canaan. 

 Litchfield — Chas. L. Gold, West Cornwall. 

 Middlesex — ^Chas. E. Lyman, Middlefi-eld. 

 Neiv London — W. S. Thomas, Groton. 

 Windham — H. B. Buell, Eastford. 

 Tolland — Andrew Kingsbury, Coventry. 



