. Annual report. Fruit-culture. INTRODUCTION In presenting to the members and correspondents of the Maine State Pomological Society the fourteenth annual report of its trans- actions, I take great pleasure in congratulating them upon the con- tinued prosperity and in(;reasing usefulness of the Society as evinced by the character, variety and practical usefulness of the matter con- tained in this volume. With only limited means at its command, the Society is carrying forward a good work in promoting one of the largest and most important of our agricultural interests, and dissem- inating correct
. Annual report. Fruit-culture. INTRODUCTION In presenting to the members and correspondents of the Maine State Pomological Society the fourteenth annual report of its trans- actions, I take great pleasure in congratulating them upon the con- tinued prosperity and in(;reasing usefulness of the Society as evinced by the character, variety and practical usefulness of the matter con- tained in this volume. With only limited means at its command, the Society is carrying forward a good work in promoting one of the largest and most important of our agricultural interests, and dissem- inating correct and trustworth}' information regarding varieties of fruits best adapted for our State, with the mobt approved methods of culture, handling and marketing. This is a work which needs "line upon line" in its presentation to the public, although in the present volume there is believed to be little repetition, but on the con- trary much of new, original and valuable information. The exhibition at Lewiston last fall was one of the largest and most attractive the Society has ever held, the fruit shown represent- ing a large crop, the third one in succession which the orchardists of our State have harvested. Each j-ear the unprofitable varieties are more and more dropping from cultivation and from the exhibition tables, as our fruit growers come to realize the importance of grow- ing only the more valuable late keeping, shipping varieties for which Maine is becoming so justly celebrated. The apples to grow are the apples which keep the longest and sell the best. Concerning the re- port of the Winter Meeting, it is proper to say that the Society is not to be held responsible for the correctness of statements, either of fact or opinion, in the papers and discussions presented, but under- takes simply to report them, or the substance of them, correctly. The writer of each essay is alone responsible for the same. Through the work of the Society, as expressed in the report of the
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