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think there has been an occasional peach on them, right 

 among the Elberta. It is a peach that is a week or ten days 

 later than the Elberta, greener, and not as desirable so far as I 

 have observed it. I do not think it is as good a bearer as the 

 Elberta, but only having had about a half-dozen peaches I am 

 not able to sav much about it." 



A Member: "I would like to ask about the Waddell; if 

 that is a peach that is grown as a market peach ? " 



Mr. Platt: "If it could be grown in large quantities I 

 don't know but it might be if marketed quickly. I have only 

 had one crop on two trees. It is large enough, and a good 

 bearer, and hangs on the tree all right." 



A Member: "It is large enough, but isn't it a little ten- 

 der, and a little off for shape? " 



Mr. Platt: "I don't know as to that. I am speaking 

 simply as I have seen it. It would be pretty hard to tell from 

 one crop whether it was a peach you want or not." 



Mr. Sternberg, reporting for the Auditing Committee, stated 

 that the committee had examined the accounts of the treasurer 

 and found same correct, and on motion duly passed, the report 

 was accepted. 



The President: "We have with us Brother Hale, the 

 "Peach King," who is ready to report for the Committee on 

 Markets and Transportation. I think he ought to know some- 

 thing about transportation. He has been transported to Georgia 

 often enough." 



Mr. J. H. Hale: "Mr. President, and Brothers and Sisters 

 of the Connecticut Pomological Society: When I was ap- 

 pointed Committee on Markets and Transportation at the last 

 session, and they finally got me as chairman of it, I started out, 

 in a general way, to see what might be done in working the 

 matter up, and made a little progress, but as it came a little 

 further towards spring I commenced to realize that my duties 

 in connection with the picking and getting to market of 225 

 car-loads of peaches in Georgia, and fifty more in Connecticut, 

 would give me about all the business on my own hands that I 

 could attend to, and so I notified the next member on that 

 committee that I would not be able to do any work on that 

 committee because I should be out of the state; but two good 



