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the present legislature will not add ]^>aldwin apples to the 

 list of legal investments for savings banks and trust com- 

 panies. (Laughter and applause.) I know no other way 

 out of the tremendous strength of his logic. . I myself did 

 not know the apple was so valuable. In my early youth we 

 did not pay 50 cents a dozen for them, we got them in other 

 ways. (Laughter.) 



But I stood on my feet not to make a long speech, but 

 to welcome you to Hartford, and I do so most sincerely. I 

 hope you will consider that you do not need a welcome to 

 Hartford. You are all Connecticut people, and you have an 

 interest in the Capitol city of *lie state. I thank you for 

 listening to me these few minutes. (Applause.) 



The Toastmaster : One might think to look over the 

 fruit exhibit of Unity Hall and our discus'sions at our 

 meetings, that the apple was the only great fruit of our 

 State. But the members of our association know that 

 peaches cut a very large figure in our horticultural work. 

 Those of us who carry on the study of the peach in this 

 country, know that the further north they can be successfully 

 grown, the better they are. And as the president of the 

 United States could not be here with us to-night, the city of 

 Beverly, Alassachusetts, has sent us a peach. Mrs. Ida Jenness 

 Moulton will now entertain you. 



Mrs. Moulton gave a humorous recitation entitled 

 "Their First Quarrel," in which was related the efforts of 

 a young married woman to learn the secrets of masonry, in- 

 cluding the pass-word. For an encore, she gave a pathetic 

 story of how a young man went West, and his father came 

 to the pastor with a story of his troubles, and wished him to 

 break the news to the boy's mother that he had been elect- 

 ed to the Legislature, but he didn't know what for. 



The Toastmaster: As the guest of Ex-Governof 

 Woodruff, I attended the New England Governors' confer- 

 ence in Boston, and Governor Woodruff and I held up the 



