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of trees, he said : "Plant the trees of North America, they to 

 be succeeded by the trees of Greece and Italy, they by Ger- 

 many and France, then British trees, and lastly trees from 

 North Russia, Sweden and Norway." As I go through the 

 state and have access to nature's best handiwork, as I do 

 through the only show windows . that you can have to get 

 true access to nature in her best work, I simply emphasize 

 what has been so well said b}^ Brother Hale in regard to the 

 beauties of nature that God in his great bounty has blessed 

 this state and us. We can go to Europe to see the pictures 

 painted b\' all the masters, but we forget that the Almighty 

 God has painted on the hillsides, the valleys and the plains 

 of dear old Connecticut, pictures more beautiful than any 

 emanating from the brush of the master, for, in the one 

 instance, it fades from the canvas and is lost to memory, 

 while in the other it endures through all time. We cannot 

 beautify our landscape any better than the Almighty has done 

 for us, but we can so take that which he has been so lavish 

 with and place it in isolated places where it will be arranged 

 for our comfort and our convenience and our compensation 

 for all time. (Applause.) 



Mr. Hale: It is not often we are able to get a good law- 

 yer and his opinion for nothing, but we have it to-night and 

 it is worth all it costs. Judge Root of Waterbury wall give us 

 the legal side of the question. 



Judge Root : Mr. Chairman and friends : I suppose to- 

 night I am the "Supreme Court of the Pomological Society." 

 Mr. Hale : That means the State of Connecticut. 



The Legal Side of the Matter. 



By Judge Charles G. Root, of Waterbur3^ 



Ignorance of the law excuses no one. Everyone is pre- 

 sumed to know the law, except the lawyers. It is admitted 

 that they do not know it. When, therefore, they are con- 

 sulted upon any particular subject, they have to take down 

 their law books, and make a thorough examination of the 



