Maine State Pomological Society. 



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TRANSACTIONS FOR 1877. 



The Secretary of the Maine State Pomological Society here- 

 with presents his report of the Transactions of the Society for 

 the year 1877. 



This Society was incorporated and organized in the winter 

 of 1873, and has held five annual exhibitions, and the same 

 number of Winter Meetings, — so located as to make the 

 benefits to be derived from them, as far as possible, available 

 to all the people of the State ; and in these efibrts it has 

 received a considerable degree of encouragement, — as much 

 perhaps as it has deserved, but not as much as the importance 

 of its work demands. 



It has published four annual reports of its Transactions, 

 (prior to this one) which have been received with much favor 

 both at home and abroad. These reports, averaging 153 pages 

 each, embrace a vast amount of information indispensable to 

 every fruit grower, horticulturist and florist in Maine, and of 

 interest to every citizen of the State, — in the form of practi- 

 cal papers, by our best cultivators, on all subjects relating to 

 fruit growing, reports on subjects of special interest, results 

 of experiments, lists of varieties for different purposes, 

 recommended or otherwise, descriptive lists of fruits, etc. 



It is presumed that the general purposes of the Society, as 

 indicated by its name, and epitomized in the charter in the 

 words "the promotion of fruit-culture," and the established 

 methods by which it seeks to accomplish these purposes are 

 so well uifderstood as to need no more particular statement 

 at this time. 



