IV STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



at its last session established Arbor Day, which was first observed on 

 Tuesday, May 10, 1887, in accordance with a proclamation issued 

 b}' His Excellency, Hon. J. R. Bodwell, Governor. It was quite 

 generally observed throughout the State, and as the years go on, 

 and its objects become better understood by our people, I believe it 

 will conduce in a large measure to the beautifying and adornment of 

 our home surroundings, school grounds, streets, highways, ceme- 

 teries and public parks. The more the home and the town are em- 

 bellished the more they will be loved, and the closer our associations 

 with them the stronger our attachment to home and native land. 



Our Society is in correspondence with thirty-three national and 

 State horticultural and pomological associations, which issue annual 

 reports of transactions and proceedings. In some cases these re- 

 ports are contained in small pamphlets of twent}- pages, in others 

 they extend to large volumes of six hundred pages. Generally they 

 •contain matter of great importance to fruit growers, much of which 

 is as applicable to our own State as to those where the volumes are 

 •originally issued. To render this information of service to our fruit 

 growers, I have included in subsequent pages a few selections from 

 these reports because they are not accessible to members of our So- 

 ciety excepting in this way, while the extracts made I believe to be 

 of great value. Especially would I call attention to the articles on 

 the apple scab, — to which President Pope alluded in his annual ad- 

 dress — and the results of arsenical spraying for the codling moth. 



For the portrait of our much-loved and lately-deceased President, 

 the Hon. Robert Hallowell Gardiner, which forms the frontispiece to 

 this volume, we are under obligation to a member of the family who 

 has generously presented the same to the Society'. For the use of 

 the plate of portrait of Hon. Marshall Pinckney Wilder, late Presi- 

 dent of the American Pomological Society, the Society is indebted 

 to the kindness of James Vick, Rochester, N. Y. The plate of the 

 Boardman apple was loaned by Hon. Henry E. Van Deman, chief 

 of the Division of Pomology, Department of Agriculture, AYashing- 

 ton, D. G., and is from the Report of the Department for 1886. 



I wish here to express to the officers and members of the Society, 

 as well as to the various persons with whom I have been in corre- 

 spondence or association in the preparation of this volume for the 

 press, my high appreciation of their uniform courtesy and kind con- 

 sideration. 



Samuel L. Boardman. 



Augusta, August 28, 1887. 



