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THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



from Connecticut this week in your berries," he said, "still 

 your growers have got a good profit from your fruit, better 

 than those of other sections. There's money in growing straw- 

 berries. Grow less acres and grow better quality fruit. The 

 eye and the palate buys the fruit every time. The commission 

 man knows by instinct good fruit when he sees it." Mr. Patch 

 alluded to the great good derived from such meetings as this 

 and then gave a report of fruit crop conditions in New Eng- 

 land. He said fruit growers had reason to feel encouraged. 

 Other speakers were E. C. Warner of North Haven and N. H. 

 Sherwood of Southport, both large berry growers. 



After the meeting closed, teams were taken for a tour of 

 some of the distant berry fields and peach orchards, and 

 through the kindness of Mr. Farnham the day was rounded 

 out with a visit to his extensive market garden farm nearby, 

 in Westville. This mammoth establishment with over 400 

 acres under cultivation, its greenhouses, stables, packing 

 houses, etc., proved an interesting sight to the visitors, who 

 were unanimous in their expression of thanks to Air. Farn- 

 ham, no Jess than to the Hamden friends, for a day of much 

 profit and pleasure. 



Field Meeting at Wallingford, August 18, 1905. 



Whenever Connecticut is blessed with a big peach crop 

 (and this happens oftener than is the case in most other sec- 

 tions), it is customary for the Pomological Society to hold a 

 "Grand Peach Meeting," visiting some of the extensive or- 

 chards and making it an occasion to do honor to the "Connec- 

 ticut Peach, than which there is none better grown." 



The season of 1905, conditions were ideal for such a meet- 

 ing' and accordingly arrangements were made with some of 

 the growers in the town of Wallingford, which has become 

 a well-known center for the production of peaches, to hold 

 a field day there on Friday, August i8th. As has been indi- 

 cated in the report of the Secretary, the purposes of this 

 meeting were three-fold: To afford an opportunity to visit 



