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changing undesirable varieties of orchard fruits by budding and 

 grafting. As an instance of this he spoke of changing the 

 Sneed peach to Carman. Prof. A. G. Gulley told of the plans 

 for preparing a suitable fruit exhibit for the coming Pan-Ameri- 

 can Exposition. Our Connecticut fruits made an excellent 

 showing at the Paris Exposition. At 2 o'clock the party 

 boarded special trolley cars and made a trip to the Atwater Bros, 

 market-garden farm in Cedar Hill. The afternoon was spent in 

 looking over the crops of vegetables, strawberries and the large 

 peach orchard, the latter showing the effects of the severe 

 drought. The fruit, loading the trees, was greatly shriveled, 

 the leaves wilted and yellow, and in many cases much of the 

 fruit was dropping — a sad sight, indeed, and a most discouraging 

 one for the growers; a fine crop of fruit only partially matured 

 lost for want of a little rain, and no signs of any in sight. Yet 

 this unpleasant spectacle was not without its striking and helpful 

 lessons — that the fruit-grower must reckon on seasons of 

 drought and be prepared to fight it with every means at his 

 command. About one hundred members participated in this 

 second outing of the summer. 



