196 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Visitors from other states gave the exhibit highest words 

 of praise, thus confirming- the statement so often made that 

 olir yearly exhibition has grown to be as fine as anything of 

 the kind held in New England. The throng of visitors was 

 very large, as is always the case at the big Rockville Fair, 

 and it is doubtful if any location could be found in the state 

 where more people could have the opportunity to see the 

 exhibition and profit by it. The fruit was shown under a 

 mammoth tent, the interior of which was indeed a beautiful 

 sight, the long rows of tables, loaded with magnificent speci- 

 mens of the fruit growers" products — grapes and peaches, 

 pears and apples, and plums and cjuinces, besides hundreds 

 of cases of preserved fruits, jellies, pickles, etc., etc. 



Just over the tent entrance was suspended a huge banner 

 bearing the v/ords, "Welcome to Connecticut's Harvest of 

 Fruits." Plates IV. and VI. gave some little idea of the 

 beauty of the fruit display. 



There was a good attendance of members of the Society 

 on each day of the exhibition and the occasion was made a 

 sort of a fall gathering of the fruit grow'ers. The exhibits 

 were studied, notes compared and ideas exchanged, and the 

 successful exhibitors closely questioned as to their methods, 

 etc. The value of such an exhibition along these lines can 

 hardly be over-estimated. 



The judging and awarding of prizes was done by com- 

 petent experts, for the most part from outside the ranks of 

 the Society. Those who acted were : On Apples, (collections 

 and single plates) T. E. Cross of Poughkeepsie, X. Y. ; Pears, 

 E. C. Powell, Editor Farm and Home, Springfield, ]\Iass. ; 

 Grapes, Prof. Fred W. Card, Rhode Island Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Kingston ; Peaches, N. S. Piatt, New Haven ; Plums, 

 Quinces and miscellaneous fruits. Prof. A. G. Gulley, Storrs ; 

 Nuts, J. H. Putnam, Litchfield ; Canned Fruits, Jellies, 

 Pickles, etc., Chas. E. Steele, Miss A. T. Thomas, and Mrs. 

 H. C. C. Miles. 



One rather discouraging thing connected with our exhi- 

 bitions is the fact that so small a proportion of the members 

 of the Societv send in fruit for exhibition. Those who com- 



