FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 119 



A New England Grower's Methods of Growing and 

 Marketing the Apple Crop. 



By T. L. KiNNEV of South Hero, Vermont. 



Afr. President, ladies and gentlemen: I am very glad, 

 indeed, that I have been crowded back, because the discus- 

 sions that have been going on have been so interesting and 

 so profitable, and 1 hardly feel myself worthy to take up the 

 time when it is being so well occupied, but, like the New 

 Jersey man, I want to say that I am delighted to see the 

 enthusiasm and the enthusiastic work which this association 

 is doing. I am also delighted to see the display of fruit that 

 is presented here in Connecticut; I am delighted to see the 

 audience you get out, because in a way we are all interested 

 in New England, not only the purchasers but the consumers ; 

 but I must get down to the business point of New England 

 apples. I want to say that New England apples are the com- 

 ing fruit of New England. I know very well you have 

 accomplished wonders in the production of peaches in Con- 

 necticut, I know you have been very successful along that 

 line ; but remember that Maine and Vermont cannot grow 

 peaches, but we can grow apples, and you have exhibited 

 here the fact that Connecticut can grow apples, and so I say 

 indeed that New England can claim for its coming fruit the 

 apple. The apple is the coming fruit all through New Eng- 

 land, and all through the world wherever it is known. It is 

 a fruit that can be carried everywhere, and can be consumed 

 with a relish and with a benefit to all the people of the world. 

 We have heard about the apples that are exhibited here from 

 Oregon. I have been wondering since I came in here and saw 

 these boxes of apples exhibited here from Oregon, and was 

 told they were picked up on the market and brought in here 

 because they were Oregon apples, if Oregon or any of the 

 Pacific coast states in their Pomological meetings ever picked 

 up a Connecticut box of apples and brought it into their 

 exhibition rooms. Why is it we take their boxes of apples 

 for exhibition and they don't ours? Because they have made 

 a mark, they have made a name that is known all over the 

 world — Oregon apples — and they are ])utting tlicm in boxes. 



