STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. I47 



A characteristic vegetable very much prized by the ItaHans — 

 we don't grow it to any extent because of cHmate — is the globe 

 artichoke. I know of no vegetable more delicious when cooked 

 after the Italian style than this. 



SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN GERMANY. 



In the matter of opportunities for horticultural education, for 

 secondary schools, Germany is considerably ahead of us. There 

 are private as well as public schools. This is a view of the 

 garden of a private school for women near Berlin. It is a 

 private institution and it is thoroughly self-supporting — an insti- 

 tution run by a woman for the giving of instruction to young 

 women in the practice and theory of horticulture. 



I have here a view of one of the class rooms in this same insti- 

 tution representing real, live, practical progress in the teaching 

 of horticulture, also another class room and specimens of 

 fruit used to illustrate work in pomology. It struck me as very 

 remarkable that we should find an institution not subsidized by 

 government, in which good round tuition fees were charged, 

 being successfully conducted in Germany and only for women. 



Other views show the manufacturing side where jellies, 

 evaporated fruit, canned fruit and all those manufactured pro- 

 ducts of the fruit were studied ; also the vegetable garden show- 

 ing the frames and the work in this particular garden done by 

 the students themselves. 



Finally I am glad to show you the teacher, who is just as 

 efficient as she is good looking. There were some fifty pupils 

 taking work in that institution. 



MARKETS AND MARKETING. 



Now we approach the question of marketing. We are all 

 interested in marketing, you know, because it touches the dollars 

 and cents side. First let me show you a view of the common- 

 est and poorest type of delivery cart in the city of Naples, Italy, 

 drawn by a poor donkey that you would expect to fall to pieces 

 before he had gone a block's length and the cart built on the 

 same plan. 



The following views show the simple type of marketing of 

 local products in many of the Italian cities, groups of women 

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