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Williams' Early Red. 

 A very satisfactory Red Apple for early summer. 



THE EASTERN FRUIT GROWERS' ASSOCIATION, ITS 

 PLANS AND PROSPECTS. 



Mr. X. T. Frame, Secretary, Martiiisbiirg, W. Va. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : Down in Berkeley 

 County, West A'irginia, Ave are accustomed ordinarily to say that 

 there are two leading County Horticultural Societies in this part 

 of the country ; first the Berkeley County Horticultural Society and 

 second the Adams County Horticultural Society. I shall go home 

 from here and tell my people that we must immediately call a special 

 metting and start a fund to put up a building. I see that we are 

 second to you in A^dams County which we cannot afford to be. W e 

 are going to have a building. 



Personally, I have for a long time wanted to get to Adams 

 county. Xow that I am here I assure you that I am very much 

 gratified to see the audience that is here to discuss the subject of 

 marketing. If there were no other impression or information that 

 I could carry away from this meeting I should feel that I had been 

 well repaid for coming over here simply to hear ]\Ir. Lewis' practical 

 talk on marketing problems. He told us a whole lot of things that 

 will do us all good, and I particularly agree with him that in com- 

 mercial fruit growing even in Adams County and Berkeley County, 



