TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. 149 



The Society's Fourth Banquet. 



Evening Session is Devoted to this Function at the 

 Garde Hotel. 



Three Hundred Attend, v.ith Governor Guest of Honor. 



Again the annual banquet of the Connecticut Pomologic- 

 al Society was an occasion of great enjoyment for the mem- 

 bers and their friends. This year the Garde Hotel was se- 

 lected as the place for holding the banquet, and with most sat- 

 isfactory results. 



The fruit growers and their wives and invited guests to 

 the number of nearly three hundred began to gather in the 

 spacious parlors of the hotel as early as six-thirty o'clock. 

 Governor Simeon E. Baldwin, who was the guest of the So- 

 ciety, received for an hour in the west parlor, the members' 

 being introduced by former President C. L. Gold, assisted by 

 Secretary Miles and the other officers. This was a very 

 pleasant feature of the evening. 



At seven-forty-five the company marched to the dining 

 room, which had been handsomely decorated for the occasion 

 with flags, flowers and palms and Connecticut-grown fruit. 



The head table was on the east side of the room and the 

 remainder of the room was completely filled with tables to 

 accommodate the large number of diners. On the head table 

 were many baskets of handsome red apples and in front of 

 the governor's place was an especially fine basket of "Bald- 

 wins." In the center of each of the other tables was a basket 

 of apples also. 



With President Rogers at the head table were fprmer 

 President Charles L. Gold, the toastmaster; Governor Bald- 

 win, Mayor Edward L. Smith, President Flavel S. Luther, of 

 Trinity College; Vice-President George A. Drew, of Green- 

 wich ; Secretary Harry C. C. Miles, of Milford ; Treasurer 

 Allen B. Cook, of Farmington ; and former President Joseph 

 H. Putnam, of the Society, of Litchfield ; Wilson H. Lee, of 

 Orange, former president of the Connecticut Dairymen's As- 



