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AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Iowa 
Charles City. 
Kansas 
Maine 
Maryland 
J. W. Kerr 
Massachusetts. 
Waban. 
Michigan 
C. J. Monroe 
Missouri 
New Hampshire 
C. C. Shaw 
New Jersey 
Titusville. 
New York 
North Carolina 
Pomona. 
Ohio 
Painesville. 
Pennsylvania 
Vermont 
F. A. Waugh 
Virginia 
West Virginia 
H. W. Miller 
The next business was tlie reading of a paper by Col. G. B. Brackett, 
Pomologist, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
The paper, which was much appreciated, was as follows: 
AMERICAN HORTICULTURE AT PARIS IN 1900. 
BY COL. G. B. BRACKETT, POMOLOGIST, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE. 
(Abstract.) 
It is a fact well recognized in foreign and home trade centers that the 
United States holds the lead in certain lines of horticultural production, and 
that she is making almost phenomenal advancement along these lines. 
The area of land occupied and the capital already invested in the fruit 
industry, although vast, are being greatly increased annually, and conse- 
quently the surplus will be enlarged proportionately. When we study the 
statistics of the past decade relating to the increased area of land devoted 
to the industry, the increased product obtained therefrom and the aggregate 
of capital invested therein, we are astonished at the magnitude already 
attained, and what the development Avill be during the next twenty years 
or more if the pace is kept up. 
Beginning with 1821, the first year of authentic statistics concerning, fruit 
exports, when the apple was the sole fruit exported— -and there were 68,643 
bushels valued at $39,966, the schedules show a steady increase in quantity 
and value. Aside from apples, fresh and dried, and vinegar, no other fruit 
item was scheduled among exports until 1865. The following table of statis- 
tics will serve to show the average annual values of fruit exports from 1891 
to 1897: 
