20 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Report of Committee on Membership. 



^NIr. Hale: Mr. President and fellow members: The sec- 

 retary in his report covered all the ground to be covered on 

 this subject, and has showed that we as a membership com- 

 mittee have been a little delinquent perhaps. We aimed to 

 get a thousand members last year, but we didn't succeed owing 

 to a combination of circumstances ; but we are going to start 

 in to-day and see if we can't do something to make up for 

 this membership. I have passed envelopes around, and I am 

 going to have badges in my pocket, and I am going to see if 

 at this meeting we can't overcome some of our losses and get 

 in a lot of new members, so that we won't have to drop out 

 the Report or any other part of our work, and I hope every 

 one will help us out. Last year was a successful one for all 

 of us fruit-growers and let us this year make it a successful 

 one for the Society. 



President Eddy : I hope you will all endorse that report 

 and help out the committee. The next thing on our program 

 is the report of the committee on exhibitions. 



Report of Committee on Exhibitions. 



The Report was presented by Prof. E. R. Bennett, for. the 

 committee, as follows : 



The annual exhibition of the Connecticut Pomological 

 Society for 1905, held at Rockville September 26, 27 and 28, 

 does not require any extended report at this time ; the condi- 

 tions under which it was held in man}- ways being similar to 

 that of 1904, occupying the same ground and under the same 

 canvass. 



Our annual exhibit this past year was somewhat smaller 

 than the year before, the apples not totaling up as much, but 

 we had more pears and as many peaches, ^\'e found the 

 same trouble this year as before in judging, there being a 

 good many inferior plates of fruit. The real trouble is in the 

 exhibitors themselves not giving careful attention enough when 

 they are picking out their fruit. Don't put apples on a plate to 



