EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 8l 



of (ilastonbury, the toastniaster, marched to the banquet hall. 

 The tables were decorated with apples in baskets and the same 

 fruit in rows and pyramids. The head table was at the south 

 end of the hall. Grace was said by Dr. L. A, Clinton of the 

 Storrs Experiment Station. 



At the head table on President Gold's right were Mrs. 

 Gold, Professor John Craig of Ithaca, N. Y., Mrs. Orrin Gil- 

 bert, wife of Orrin Gilbert of Middletown, treasurer of the 

 society ; Dr. L. A. Clinton, Professor H. A. Surface, W. W. 

 Farnsworth of Waterville, Ohio, president of the Ohio Hor- 

 ticultural society ; Vice-President Elijah Rogers of Southing- 

 ton and Mrs. Rogers, and H. B. Fullerton of Huntington, L. T. 

 On Mr. Gold's left were Toastmaster Hale, Miss Hale, Pro- 

 fessor F. C. Sears, Wilfred Wheeler of Concord, Mass. ; H. 

 W. Collingwood, editor of the Rural New Yorker ; Mrs. H. C. 

 C. Miles, wife of Secretary Miles ; Colonel J. F. Brown of 

 Stonington, secretary of the State board of agriculture ; Dr. 

 E. H.« Jenkins, director of the Connecticut Experiment Sta- 

 tion, New Haven ; Wilson H. Lee of Orange, president of the 

 Connecticut Dairymen's Association ; Albert T. Repp of Glass- 

 boro, N. J., and President Charles L. Beach of the Connecti- 

 cut Agricultural College. 



Almost every course on the unique menu contained apples 

 in one form or another. There were steamed apples, apple 

 sauce, fritter de pom, pomological salad, apple pie, protose 

 with dressing, and to cap the climax, sweet cider disguised as 

 apple juice. Even the ice cream, which was served in "or- 

 chard style," masqueraded in the form of fruit. One of the 

 special dishes on the menu which everyone seemed to like 

 was "peach dumpling with Hale sauce." There were apples 

 everywhere. In fact, the only variety of the apple family 

 missing that evening was the apple of discord. 



