lo THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



handed over the office to me, he said that he beheved that we 

 already had nearly all the fruit growers in the State as members 

 of this Association that could be gotten in. I hardly thought 

 that was the case, and I thought we must look over new fields 

 if we were to add to our membership, and after spending a 

 good deal of time one way and another trying to find out how 

 to add to our list, I finally decided that I would mail a request 

 to every member of the Society asking him to be so kind as to 

 forward the names of his neighbors, and those of his friends 

 all over the State, who were interested in fruit growing, but 

 more particularly those in his immediate neighborhood. I think 

 we sent out about three hundred and fifty of such appeals, but 

 I think I have received replies from about a hundred only, but 

 from those we have succeeded in getting pretty close to a 

 thousand new names, and the Secretary promised, so far as 

 possible, to send to them a program of this annual meeting. I 

 think he has sent out seven hundred and fifty odd. It seemed 

 to me that in this way we ought to interest a good many new 

 friends, and increase our membership largely. I think it has 

 had a good effect, and I am glad to see so many new faces 

 here, and I hope they will all be inclined to join the Society 

 before they leave for home. 



The President : We will be glad to have as many more new 

 members as we can get to-day, and you can see Brother Gilbert 

 or the Secretary. Either of them will be ready to make you 

 a member of the Connecticut Pomological Society. Brother 

 Gilbert has devoted a good deal of time and thought in an effort 

 to bring the Society to the attention of new people, and there 

 ought to be a good number added to our membership as the 

 outcome of it. Besides having a good attendance here, we 

 ought also to add a lot of new members to-day, and new mem- 

 bers in the future from it. 



Mr. Gilbert : I would be glad to receive returns from those 

 who have not already written me. Letters are coming in every 

 day with new names, and I think if you will all take hold and 

 help out in this matter we can get nearly all the names of those 

 in the State who are interested in growing good fruit. There 

 must be ten or fifteen thousand people in the 3tate who have 

 land from which they are or ought to be growing fruit, and 

 who would be benefited by membership in our Societv. If we 



