l80 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Prices are going to be better and you are going to make more 

 money than you ever did before if you are only willing to put 

 yourself into it and do the work necessary. If you are not, 

 don't go into it, but simply let it alone. 



Wilfrid Wheeler, Concord, Mass. 

 I am very glad to be with you here tonight, and in fact at this 

 convention, and bring you a greeting from the old Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society. I suppose we can claim the honor of 

 being one of the oldest societies, if not the oldest, in the United 

 States. At the same time, we are always ready to welcome all 

 the new ones, and we are always ready to welcome any of the 

 people from other societies who may come to Boston at any time. 

 And it is always a pleasure to me to go out among the other 

 societies of New England and find out what they are doing. 

 The progress of this Society helps us, shows us what you are 

 doing, shows us what you are raising in Maine. And it is only 

 through these horticultural societies that the people get together 

 the products of the state, or the products of the communities. 

 They bring these products together in their annual shows and 

 these together with the literature they publish offer great oppor- 

 tunities to the producers of fruit or any other agricultural or 

 horticultural products. We represent there perhaps a very 

 aristocratic section in a great many ways. The people about 

 Boston who are interested largely in the Horticultural Society 

 grow flowers. Fruits and vegetables have lately been in the 

 background more or less, as our premium lists would show. 

 We award perhaps three or four thousand dollars for flowers 

 where we award two thousand for fruits and vegetables. But 

 at the same time we are always open to exhibitions of any kinds 

 of fruits and vegetables raised in any part of New England, or 

 in fact in the United States. And I was very glad to notice in 

 what your president said tonight, that it was not the money part 

 of fruit growing or the money part of horticulture that we ought 

 to be interested in — we ought to be interested for a love of the 

 vocation, the avocation, and this point all New England should 

 strive for. And if we do strive for that, and if we attain it, 

 we will grow fruit that New England will be proud of, we will 



