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Eeport of Annual Exhibition — 1 



General Rules of the Exhibition 5 



List of Premiums Awarded 8 



Proceedings of the Winter Meeting 17 



Address of Welcome, by Hon. J. G. Hoyt 19 



Annual Address of the President, Charles S. Pope 24 



Memorial Address on the late Robert Hallowell Gardiner, by Sam- 

 uel L. Boardraan 27 



My Experience in Orcharding and Marketing the Fruit, by P. 



Whittier 35 



Floriculture for Children, by Mrs. Sarah B. Purington 45 



Influence of Flowers in the Home, by Mrs. Addie S. B. Weston. . . 51 



Defects in Orchard Management, by Leander H. Blossom 58 



Notions— Pomological and Otherwise, by D. H. Knowlton 61 



How 1 Have Protected my Orchard from the Ravages of Mice and 



Borers, by S. R. Leland 77 



Twenty Years' Experience and What I Have Learned, by William 



P. Atherton 81 



Report of Business Meeting 88 



Value of a Knowledge of the Natural S(;iences to the Farmer, by 



Mrs. Hattie Park Keyes 91 



The Old and the New, Poem, by C. A. Mace 101 



Original Papers 109 



A Chapter of Reminiscences, by Calvin Chamberlain 101 



Fruit in Aroostook County, by E. W. Merritt 115 



Some Aspects of Fi'uit Culture in Sagadahoc County, by J. W. 



Lang 119 



Orcharding in Somerset Countj% by Frank E. Nowell 122 



What Shall We Do to Increase the Profits of Fruit Culture in 



Maine, by Henry A. Sprague 125 



Letter from Hon. Henry E. Van Deman 127 



Propagation and Culture of the Plum, by J. E. Bennoch 128 



Fruit Culture in Piscataquis County, by H. L. Leland 130 



Letter from Patrick Barry 132 



Letter from W. S. Devol 132 



