232 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



THIRD FIELD MEETINCx, AT BERLIN. 

 Thursday, Aug. 22, iqoi. 



"By invitation of Manager Molumphy of the Connecticut Valley 

 Orchard Company, the Societ\' will visit their Berlin orchards on Thurs- 

 day the 22d. 



Perhaps never before has a better opportunity been offered our mem- 

 bers to look over such extensive fruit farms. More than 100 acres are 

 here devoted to peaches, plums, apples, pears, grapes, berries, etc. A 

 great number of varieties — some of the newest — and manj^ just ripening, 

 will be seen. Japan plums will be at their best. 



Let every member make an effort to attend. Bring the ladies and your 

 friends too, who are interested in fruits. 



Dinner will be strictly on the basket-lunch plan, so don't forget a well- 

 filled lunch-basket. Good speakers after dinner ! All come, and make it 

 the biggest field meeting yet !" 



The above invitation to a third summer meeting was sent out 

 to over 400 members of the Society and others interested in 

 fruit growing, and, as a result, the Connecticut Valley Orchard 

 Co. entertained over 300 visitors on the day appointed, and 

 there was held the largest field meeting of the year, if not in 

 the history of the Society. 



It was a "rousing" good meeting throughout — the tour of 

 the big orchards and berry fields, the dinner, the speaking and 

 the general sociality all being thoroughly enjoyed. 



The Orchard Co., and especially the manager, 'Sir. ^lolum- 

 phy, received much praise for their enterprise and hard work 

 in establisliing so extensive an undertaking in fruit culture. 



Probably nowhere else in- the State could be found so large 

 a variety of fruits growing successfully as on these farms. 

 Originally rough and neglected lands, several farms have been 

 thrown together and planted with apples, pears, cherries — both 

 sweet and sour — peaches, plums, grapes and berries and. in 

 some cases, vegetable crops also. 



The visitors had the opportunity to see a large acreage of 

 apples, and, even in this "oft'-year" with apples, an excellent 

 crop of early summer varieties, also- Ben Davis, Fallowater, 

 etc. Of peaches the crop carried by the handsome trees was a 

 promising one. Some early sorts were just ripening. But the 

 interest of all centered in the splendid plum orchard, where the 



