a 92 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Tlie program of speaking will be of unusual interest. Mr. H. W. 

 Collingwood, Editor of The Rural New-Yorker, Prof. F. A. Waugh 

 of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and others have been 

 invited to attend and address the meeting. 



Don't miss this discussion of important and timely topics. 



Lunch will lie strictly on the basket picnic plan, so let no one 

 forget the lunch basket. 



FRUIT GROWERS Bring your family and friends, take a day 

 ■off in an "off year" and xnsit this great fruit farm, witli its many 

 interesting features. 



YOU'LL REGRET IT IF YOU MISS IT! 



Thi.s was the somewhat tiniqiie invitation sent ont for 

 the meeting at Brother Hale's, and, when the day arrived, 

 members of the Society and their friends in large numbers 

 turned out to accept it and embrace the opportunity of visit- 

 ing" one of the most extensive fruit farms in the State. Con- 

 necticut fruit growers know by ekperience that there is much 

 to see and study at Hale's, and, although an "off year," so it 

 proved in this case. 



Most of the visitors came by trolley, leaving the cars at 

 a point some distance below Mr. Hale's home place, and here 

 teams were in waiting to take us to the new hill-top orchards. 

 We were soon in the midst of the new orchards where about 

 150 acres of extremely rough land has been cleaied and 

 planted to peaches and apples. Mr. Hale's foreman, a bright 

 Italian, occupies a house in the center of this tract, from the 

 highest point of which a magnificent view of the Connecticut 

 River and the surrounding country is obtained. After looking 

 over these thrifty young orchards the visitors wended their 

 way down to a lower level, where a 100-acre-tract of equally 

 rough land is being cleared for still further plantings. 



To see this rough land, thick with wood and brush and 

 big rocks, one would doubt the possibility or practicability of 

 reclaiming it for orchard planting, but Mr. Hale has proved 

 beyond (piestion that it can be done, and the fine orchards 

 already growing attest his faith in the location and soil, and his 

 ability to tame this wild country and make it produce crops 

 of choice fruit. It was indeed a revelation to us all to note 

 the remarkable success of this work — ^a work that would tax 



