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come here with the spirit and purpose of helping one another, 

 and if all help, and take an interest in our Society, which I 

 shall do in the future as in the past, we can certainly be of great 

 use to our business and ourselves, and to the state as well. 

 Thanking you all, I respectfully transfer this office into the 

 hands of the one who has been appointed to succeed me, and 

 do it very willingly." 



President N. S. Piatt then took the chair and announced 

 the following appointments as chairmen of the standing com- 

 mittees for 1901 : Membership — Orrin Gilbert, of Middletown; 

 Exhibitions — G. S. Butler, of Cromwell; Injurious Insects — 

 Prof. W. E. Britton, of New Haven; Fungous Diseases — J. H. 

 Putnam, of Litchfield; New Fruits — F. L. Perry, of Bridge- 

 port; Markets and Transportation — J. H. Hale, of South 

 Glastonbury; Legislation and Business — A. R. Wadsworth, of 

 Farmington. 



President Piatt congratulated the Society on the success of 

 the meeting, the very large attendance and continued interest 

 throughout all the sessions, and the fact that about thirty new 

 members had affiliated with the Society. 



At 5 P. M. the grandest meeting in the history of the Society 

 was brought to a close. 



REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE FRUIT EX- 

 HIBIT AT THE ANNUAL MEETING 



The committee finds in the adjoining rooms two long tables 

 well filled with exhibits of fruits, notably apples and pears, and a 

 few nuts as well. The specimens shown are in excellent condi- 

 tion for this season of the year, and the whole exhibit is very 

 creditable to the Society. Special mention should be made of 

 the large collection of apples secured by Mr. Hale from the 

 recent exhibition of the Marylarid Horticultural Society. The 

 first was grown in the mountain region of Maryland and West 

 Virginia, and includes a number of varieties of western origin, 

 new to eastern growers. The apples are of good size, very 



