44 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



used to buy a quarter of a pound of butter, or cheese — which 

 was quite enough of some kinds — or a quarter of a pound of 

 sausage and other commodities in Hke quantities. It is a retail 

 market in the most Hteral sense of the word. 



The flower market here in front of the great city liall in 

 Brussels is simply another example of a retail market. It is 

 beautiful and picturesque. 



I thought perhaps this picture would be interesting although 

 it is not one of my own. This shows one of the typical city 

 markets at Sofia in one of the public squares, and this one here 

 shows a market at Cairo, Egypt. These open air markets in 

 public places are almost universal outside of the United States 

 of America. I was going to make an exception of Canada, 

 but in French Canada particularly the open air markets are 

 maintained in a great many places. 



Now I am going to leave behind the fruit-growing business 

 and the fruit marketing business for the present because I am 

 personally more interested in other branches of horticulture. 

 I am personally particularly interested in the ornamental phases 

 of agriculture known as landscape gardening, and the old and 

 beautiful gardens of England have been a special delight to 

 me. Here you have an example of one of them. They are 

 characterized by the enormous quantities of flowering plants 

 and of very, very great luxuriance. There is no other country 

 where such quantities of flowers can be grown in such a mag- 

 nificent and luxuriant manner and no place in the world where 

 such beautiful lawns can be developed. Unfortunately it is not 

 convenient to show the beauty and the luxuriance of a lawn in 

 a photograph, and so in these pictures which we run over we 

 don't have the opportunity to see the lawns as we ought to see 

 them. This picture of the old fashioned bee hives is interesting 

 perhaps, and I ought to say that the bee hives are kept there 

 for ornamental purposes rather than for the growing of bees. 

 In this country we have heard of the rose as the queen of flow- 

 ers, and many of us suppose that it is so although we have very 

 small demonstration of it in our own gardens. It is not possi- 

 ble to grow roses, in the Eastern States, at any rate, at all as 

 they are grown in' England. After one has seen roses in Eng- 

 land he is pretty nearly ready to give them up in this country 

 and devote his land to cabbages. 



