20 THE COXXECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIErV. 



ixeports of standing Cxommittees. 



Report of Committee on Legislation. 



Mr. J. H. Hale, Chairman: During the last year the 

 General Assembly not being in session, there has been noth- 

 ing for 3'our committee to present to them. 



Your committee has but little to report at this time, but 

 later will have some recommendations in relation to some mat- 

 ters that need improving. As noted by the President's ad- 

 dress, this Society has for two years, through its officers, been 

 meeting with some of the other Xew England State Horti- 

 cultural Societies and planning for some uniform package 

 laws. At the recent conference of the governors of the New 

 England States there were discussions of matters of general 

 interest to all New England, one of them was the sub- 

 ject of Horticulture, — presented by Professor John Craig of 

 Cornell University. While there were various committees ap- 

 pointed at that conference they did not really act until this 

 last week, wdien before the General Assembly of Connecticut 

 was presented a matter that will be given a hearing this after- 

 noon. A committee of three (one senator and two representa- 

 tives ) conferred with a like committee from each of the other 

 States concerning the adoption by the General Assembly of 

 such laws as affect our common interests ; and the commission 

 will take up the work that our own Pomological Society has 

 been considering along these lines. I would like to present the 

 following resolution, Mr. President : 



W/icrcas, The Connecticut Pomological Society has for 

 several years been cooperating with the Horticultural Societies 

 of the other New England States to secure uniform laws on 

 matters affecting our common interests as fruit growers ; 

 Therefore, be it 



Resolved, That we welcome the introduction into the 

 present General Assembly, of the bill providing for a special 



