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Most grjwers prefer the Downing, whose fruit is larger and if any- 

 thing better. These are American varieties and entirely free from 

 mildew. There are several new varieties but as yet not enough is 

 known of them to speali with certainty, though they are easily 

 raised and mildew does not trouble them. The Industry is one of 

 these. A good English variety is the White Smith. It mildews 

 somewhat, but when sprayed with the Bordeaux mixtures, it is free 

 from it. The fruit is large and of excellent qualit}'. 



Tables were placed in the hall, and these were well covered with 

 specimens of fruit grown in North Franklin. It was a surprise 

 and pleasure to some of the committee to observe the high color 

 and perfection of the fruit. In closing his remarks the Secretary 

 thanked the people in behalf of the Society for bringing out so 

 excellent an exhibition of fruit, and for the many courtesies that 

 had been extended to the officers in counec ion with the meeting. 



AT THE WINTER MEETING. 



ADDRESS OF AVELCOME. 



By Dr. H. A. Robinson. 



Mr. President, Members of the Maine State Pomological Society and 

 Board of Agriculture : 



In response to the request of your Secretary and as a life mem- 

 ber of this Society from its present organization, it becomes my 

 duty and is also a very pleasant privilege to welcome the Society 

 to a meeting in Piscataquis county. Although we claim the pivotal 

 point or geographical center of the State to be within our borders, 

 and very near where we are now assembled, we have been and are 

 to a great extent somewhat isolated or to one side of the great 

 fruit growing portion of the State lying to the southwestward of 

 us. So, therefore, we have not been situated to conveniently take 

 an active part in the meetings and exhibitions of the Society ; and 

 we feel that it is very kind and generous of you to come so far 

 from the more convenient center of your membership to a meeting 

 here. 



We are on about the same line of latitude and the same isotherm 

 as Moscow and Jerusalem, in the western part of this State. Here, 



