200 THE CONNECTICUT POMOEOGICAE SOCIETY. 



efficiently performed by Prof. S. T. Maynard of Massachu- 

 setts, the well-known pomological authority. The competi- 

 tion in many of the classes was very keen, and the whole 

 show reflected credit on those growers who contributed exhib- 

 its. At the close of the exhibition much of the fruit was read- 

 ily disposed of at good prices., while some of the choicest 

 specimens were sent to the Jamestown Exposition, where they 

 formed a notable addition to Connecticut's agricultural display. 

 Premiums amounting to $271.90 were awarded, divided 

 among about fifty exhibitors. 



^ Mention has already been made in the report of the Sec- 

 retary and elsewhere of the splendid display of fruits made 

 by this Society for the meeting of the National Grange at 

 Hartford, November 13-20, 1907. 



Practically all of the fruit was furnished by members of 

 the Society, who took special ])ride in making the exhibit as 

 fine as possible. The display was tastefully arranged in one 

 of the corridors of the State Capitol and attracted the favor- 

 able attention of the thousands of visitors in attendance at the 

 Grange meeting from all over the United States. 



The display comprised 180 plates of apples, 40 plates of 

 pears, 10 plates of quirfces, a special display of 425 specimens 

 of apples, 84 plates of fruit from the Connecticut Agricul- 

 tural College, besides exhibits of apples in pyramids and 

 packed boxes. The half-tone picture facing page 29 shows 

 the arrangement of the exhibits. 



The Society received the thanks of the Connecticut State 

 Grange and the National Grange for their successful efforts, 

 and it is certain that nothing finer in the way of a fruit ex- 

 hibit has ever been seen in our State. 



Institute Work in 1907. 



This branch of the Society's work has been fully covered 

 in the annual report of the Secretary (see page 6), and it is 

 vmnecessary to more than summarize the matter here. 



During 1^)07 h^irmcrs" Institutes in Connecticut were 

 carried on along about the same lines as in previous vears, the 



