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some of his fruit. I did about the same as a man who had 

 preceded me did in paying for whatever he bought. He got 

 a lot of the smaller coin, and picked up what he wanted and 

 then dropped one coin at a time into the vender's hand. When 

 he saw the man smile he stopped dropping coin. In my case 

 they could not quite make me out, because I put for the 

 poorest looking apples in order to find the wormy ones. As 

 I said before, the fruit business and horticulture seems to 

 be in a paralyzed condition all over the Continent. I saw 

 more pears with the codling moths in them than I ever thought 

 could exist. This gave me the idea that there was a great 

 opportunity for exporting fruit to those countries, especially 

 from the east here. In Hamburg, Germany, I got into a 

 fruit market and found a man who had been in America, and 

 he was handling American apples. He showed me some 

 New York apples in barrels. They were simply ordinary 

 apples, and they were asking $7.40 per barrel. I also asked 

 him what the duty was in Germany, and found it was com- 

 paratively small. On apples in barrels it is comparatively 

 low, but on apples that are wrapped, the German government 

 imposes a higher duty. The more papers there are on the 

 apples the more, apparently, it costs. I asked him why that 

 was, and he said that they considered that the apples must be 

 better if they were wrapped, and they had to get a greater 

 income by the duty. In Berlin, I asked a friend if they had 

 any American apples, and he told me that they never consid- 

 ered one of their dinners complete unless they had some Cal- 

 ifornia apples on the table. 



To-night, after hearing the talk here, and seeing your 

 fruit, and the Connecticut exhibit, I have begun to think that 

 the next time that any of us go abroad we may not see in 

 any of the countries over there California apples, but it will 

 "be New York apples and Connecticut and New England fruit 

 in Hamburg and those other places that I visited. You are 

 certainly raising some fine fruit in Connecticut. In Massa- 

 chusetts, where we held the New England Fruit Show, you 



