Proceedings of the 

 Tenth Annual Meeting of The 

 Connecticut Pomological Society 



THE tenth annual meeting of the Society was opened at 

 Jewell Hall, Hartford, Wednesday- morning, February 6, 

 1901, at 10.30, with President J. H. Merriman in the 

 chair. An unusually large number of members and others were 

 present for the opening session. President Merriman, in open- 

 ing the meeting, delivered the following address: 



Fellow Officers and Members of The Connecticut Pomological 

 Society: 

 Agreeably to the custom established by my predecessors, I 

 suppose I am expected to address .you with a few introductory 

 remarks. As you know, I am not a public speaker, and cer- 

 tainly not one like Brother Hale, who has but to open his mouth 

 and it talks itself; nevertheless, I will submit a few thoughts for 

 your consideration. I am glad to meet and greet so many 

 familiar faces, and congratulate you all upon the auspicious cir- 

 cumstances under which our Society enters upon the new cen- 

 tury. It is now three hundred strong, and yet is but a child 

 ten years old. The past year has been one of unprecedented 

 growth and prosperity, showing that interest in horticulture is 

 broadening and deepening in our state through the organized 

 influence of our Society. For many of us, however, who own 

 commercial orchards disappointment has been written in many 

 lines. The apple crop promised a bountiful yield until the 12th 

 of September, when the hurricane that swept over our land 

 from Texas to Maine blew off about 80 per cent of the fruit, 



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