THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 15 



the planting of commercial orchards and vineyards as a profit- 

 able investment, and to help on the great movement towards 

 the country, and the possibility of a home amid all the beautiful 

 and refining things of Nature. We are only just beginning to 

 realize what a wealth of pleasure and profit is to be found in 

 our Connecticut soil ! If we accomplish this, Connecticut will 

 owe a lasting debt of gratitude to her Pomological Society. 



Perfect harmony exists — as it ever has — among our work- 

 ers. We are fortunate in having the advice and counsel of 

 many veteran horticulturalists in our work, and this is most 

 deeply appreciated by the younger members of the Society who 

 are just beginning their life work of fruit growing; our good 

 name and reputation is known abroad, and, all in all, we have 

 much to be thankful for and take pride in. 



To our sister organizations in Connecticut we present our 

 best wishes, assuring them of our loyalty to Connecticut agri- 

 culture and oui desire to work hand and hand with them in 

 furthering the interests of the good old State. 



Your Secretar}' washes to thank all who have assisted him 

 in his labors through the year and to express the hope that the 

 Society may live long and prosper, continually adding to its 

 membership new life and a host of walling workers, for let us 

 remember "we have not done our best yet." 



Respectfully submitted, 



H. C. C. MILES, Secretarv. 



