THE 



CONNECTICUT 



POMOLOGICAL 



SOCIETY 



Proceedings of the 



Eighteenth Annual Meeting 

 1909 



IX accordance with the requirements of the Constitution and 

 the decision of the Executive Committee, the Society con- 

 vened for its 18th annual meeting- at Unity Hall, Hartford, 

 Conn., February 3 and 4, 1909. 



The opening session was called to order at 10.45 Wednes- 

 day morning, February 3, by the President, Charles L. Gold 

 of West Cornwall. 



The hall was well filled with enthusiastic fruit growers, 

 from all over the State and from adjoining States, at the 

 opening hour. Immediately on calling to order, President 

 Gold delivered his annual address, as follows : 



President's Address. 



Mr. Secretary, Members of the Connecticut Pomological So- 

 ciety and our Friends: 

 Another year has slipped away and we gather again to 

 meet old friends, and gain new ones, to discuss our success- 

 es as well as our failures of the past season, for to err is 



