The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-31
SECOND FIELD MEETING
OF THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGI-
 CAL SOCIETY.

N. s. Platt's Extensive Orchards Were
 Visited at His Invitation-Professo
 Johnson of Springfield Says There
 VIII be Plenty of Peaches This Year -
 Most Success full Meeting.
 meeting of the year of the Connecticut
 Pomological society was held yesterday
 at the invitation of N. $. Platt, the
 president of the society. MT. Platt has
 an extensive peach orchard on Shingle
 Hills. West Haven, and he invited all
 the members and their friends to pay
 a visit to it. The invitation was ac-
 cepted by 125 people who thoroughly
 enjoyed the days outing. Mir Platt's
 orchard is one of the most prosperous
 of the peach orchard of the state there
 being twenty-five acres of splendid
 fruit to be seen there, and it was seen
 at a glance that the crop on his land is
 as fine as any in the state, The trees
 are in a healthy condition at the pres
 ent time, and the fruit is nearly ready
 to pick The Triumph, Greensboro,
 Waddell, Belle Emma and other varie-
 ties are laid out in differnt parts of
 the large orchard, and each section was
 gone over by nearly all of those who
 attended the meeting. The headquar-
 ters for the day were at WaVerly
 Grove, at the west end of Savin Rock,
 and as soon as 10 o'clock the first of
 the number began to arrive. The meet
 ing was held under the beautiful trees
 in the grove at the west of the hotel on the place and from there two large 'busses conveyed the visitors to MT. Platts place. The drive is three quarters of a mile through pretty part of the town of Orange and MT. Platt's farm is at the top of Shingle Hill, commanding magnificent view of the surrounding country. The drive was enjoyed by all, but when they reached their destination they were more than delighted with the layout of peach trees bearing thousands of bask- cts of the favorite fruit.
 The day was rather cloudy at the outset and this fact delayed the people from going to the meeting. The or chards were visited before dinner, and it was was nearly o'clock before the 'busses had carried all there, Shortly before 1 o'clock MT. Platt announced bot raoHv and Inc 11rpa number sat down to fine sea food spread All kinds of products of the salt water were on the table and to- gether with the fruits of the season the dinner was a fine one It lasted about an hour and then MT. Patt. as presi- dent of the society, called for order, making few brief remarks appro- priate for the occasion. He later call ed upon a number of prominent fruit growers in the state for few remarks and the men responded willingly.
 The speaking was on three different lines: Getting ready fruit for the Buff falo. exposition this summer The treat ment of San Jose scale the new pest on fruit trees, and The crop reports in this state and country. All of these top ics were discussed briefly by different and their talks were very in teresting Among the speakers were Professor Briton and Professor Rorer of the New Haven experiment station, Professor Johnson of Springfield, Mass; George F. Platt of Milford, a well known grower; Dr. Slight of the exper- iment station of Toronto, Canana, who l Is now studying at Yale; Rev. w, Me- Nicholl, the pastor of the First M. E. church, West Haven; MT. Perry, well | known amateur fruit grower of | Bridgeport; Edwin HoNt and son of | New Canaan; Professor Gully, of the | Connecticut Agricultural college, and | others It was regretted w. H. Hale, | the largest peach grower of the state, | and who lives in Glastonbury, was un- | able to be present, but he was repre- sented by his son, Stancliff Hale, who | was there with his wife,
 H. c. C. Miles, the we'll known secre- .ary of the state society, was there and he referred to the future meetings 70 be held by the society The next | meeting, he said, would probably be leld in Lebanon, this state, at the of MT. Smith on that place. The date for the meeting MT. Miles was lnable to state.
 One of the most interesting speeches if the day was that of Professor John- ,on. He said that the peach crop was Infected by the drought to a great ex- ent ins Missouri and that the crops II Michigan and Ohio would be sent vest this year. instead of east as has ,een the custom This means that the ,astern states will have their own fruit his season, and the speaker assured he members that there were plenty of beaches in the east to fill the demand )f course the sending west of such arge crops as those two states turn out will make a little difference to the men lere, but not large enough to be felt. Professor Johnson said that the Della vare crop was only about one half as arge as it usually is, but that to make western Maryland, and this crop would ome up north. The farms in Connec- icut are doing very well and large rops are reported.
 There was general discussion at he conclusion of the meeting and ote of thanks was extended to Mr. | nd Mrs. Platt for their hospitality uring the day. The members said it Ias one of the most successful meet 1gs held by the society in a long time. ! he people took cars for the city about :30 o'clock, but a few were obliged to n hofOro that tip1n