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right around there bore beautiful peaches. They were finely 

 colored. Fine, handsome peaches, and that only goes to show- 

 that we must give them sunshine. I believe that an orchard 

 planted from fifteen to twenty feet apart will live longer. 

 Why? Because there is more room, and there is less liability 

 to disease, and there is more sunlight and air among the trees. 

 I believe such an orchard will last longer. Of course there 

 are a good many of you who may differ with me. Some may 

 want them thick, and some may want them thin, and you may 

 be sorry if you do, and sorry if you don't. If you put them 

 in thick and your orchard plays out in six or seven years you 

 Avill be sorry you did it. I think on the whole it is better to 

 set the trees the wider distance apart so as to get as much 

 henefit from sunlight as you can. The orchard will live longer 

 for it, and it is just as profitable, if not more so, in the end. 



The Presidext : Of course, if you head them back you can 

 plant them thicker. It wants a man of good judgment to prune 

 the trees. 



The order of the day now would be the election of officers, 

 "but the Nominating Committee is not quite ready to report, 

 and, as the next speaker is in a hurry to get away, I would now 

 like to have that speaker, j\Ir. Foster, address you. 



Domestic and Foreign Fruit Markets^ and Their Requirements. 



By Mr. Charles Foster of New York City. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen: Through the courtesy of your 

 secretary, I have been asked to address you upon the subject 

 of "Domestic and Foreign Fruit Markets and Their Require- 

 ments." It is one that has had wide discussion, and requires 

 broad handling to lift it above the level of purely local, and often- 

 times, narrow interpretation. Within the limited scope of a 

 paper of this kind, I shall endeavor briefly to treat the question 

 from the viewpoint of the distributor in the home and foreign 

 markets — the necessary factor in a business of such magnitude, 

 whose contact with producer and consumer offers opportunity 

 for a fair study of conditions that make for mutual success or 

 failure. The proposition "what to grow and how to grow it," 

 takes first rank in the discussion at issue, as success primarily 



