22 THE COXNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The total number of plates on the tables at Rockville was 

 about eight hundred, divided as follows : Apples, 303 ; pears, 

 170; peaches. 64. with 170 plates from the State college, the 

 balance of grapes, plums and quinces. Several handsome 

 packages for market were exhibited, deserving the blue rib- 

 bons placed on them. 



\Miile the exhibition from the College at Storrs does not 

 appear in our premium awards, not being entered in competi- 

 tion, vet we must not fail to give them the credit due for the 

 large part they take in our annual exhibit, as well as in all 

 of our State, and some of our County, expositions, in all of 

 which they show us the results of experiments that the aver- 

 age fruit grower could not afiford to carry on alone. Thus 

 we are able to grow our fruits with less uncertainty as to the 

 results of our labor. 



A new feature? in our tent at Rockville attracted much at- 

 tention, and we feel that it might be well to encourage in some 

 way the exhibition of flowers with our fruit. ]\Ir. and ]\Irs. 

 Chapman of Westerly, R. I., had on exhibit two hundred and 

 fiftv varieties of dahlias. It must have been a revelation to 

 many, and all surely enjoyed the sight. 



Respectfully submitted. 

 L. C. ROOT. ) 



GEO. H. HALE. [ Committee. 

 A. G. GULLEY. ) 



The report was accepted. 



Report of Committee on Markets and Transportation. 



AIr. J. NoRRis Barnes, Chairman. 

 Mr. President and Members of the Connectieut Pomological 

 Society: 

 At our annual meeting one >ear ago. a resolution was 

 passed, instructing this committee, in connection with the 

 executive committee of this Society, to make an attempt to 

 ascertain the probable volume of the peach, apple and other 

 fruit crops of the State the coming season. 



