lO THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Our Meetings. 



In addition to the annual meeting last February, the Society 

 held two summer field meetnigs, the annual fall meeting and 

 exhibition at Rockville, besides numerous institutes scattered 

 throughout the spring, fall and winter. 



Only two invitations for field meetings were sent in. The 

 first summer gathering was a very successful field day, June 

 24th, at Hamden, the center of extensive strawberry and mar- 

 ket garden farms. Over 100 members were in attendance and 

 made a tour of the farms of Messrs. Flight, Thomas and Ure. 

 As this was in the height of the strawberry season, when a car 

 or more is loaded daily for Boston, as well as supplying the 

 nearby local markets, the visitors were afforded an excellent 

 chance to see the handling of a great berry crop in one of the 

 leading fruit sections of the State. This very profitable and 

 enjoyable day was rounded out with a visit to A. N. Farnham's 

 mammoth market gardening establishment nearb}; at Westville. 



The promise of an abundant peach crop in the State last 

 summer suggested the advisability of holding a gathering of 

 the peach growers, for the purposes of both business and 

 pleasure. Accordingly, arrangements were made with some 

 of the largest growers in the town of Wallingford, where more 

 acres are devoted to peaches than in any other one town in 

 the State, and, on August i8th, was held the largest "peach 

 field meeting" in the history of the Society. Over three hun- 

 dred were present and spent tlie day in a tour of most of the 

 large orchards, stopping for a rest at noon to enjoy lunch at 

 the Grange Hall and a discussion of ways and means of hand- 

 ling the coming peach crop to best advantage. Besides grow- 

 ers, there were many commission men and fruit buyers in 

 attendance, representing all the large markets of the East, thus 

 bringing together the grower and the buyer and affording an 

 opportunity to become acquainted and arrange for business. 

 Officials of the railroad lines were also present and the situ- 

 ation was- discussed from the transportation standpoint as 

 well. This splendid meeting did much to assist the growers 

 in marketing their crop to advantage and to attract the atten- 

 tion of and interest buvers and markets in Connecticut peaches ; 



