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There is as much difference in apple trees as in the different kinds 

 of cows in a barn. You will find our successful nurserymen are 

 paying more attention to taking scions or buds from trees that 

 produce good fruit and are prolific than heretofore. It isn't 

 so much the number of barrels of apples a tree produces one year 

 and then not any for a number of years, as the fact that a tree 

 will yield apples of a fine quality and yield them every year. 

 This point, if followed out, will make a successful apple grower. 



The same is true in the growing of peaches and plums. 



In all of these matters, much depends upon the individual 

 himself. If a boy comes to college and goes to sleep and has 

 no backbone to be something, you can't do anything with him. 

 There are great possibilities for the young man if he will but 

 make himself alive to his opportunities and grasp them, and 

 nowhere will he find such splendid opportunities as along agri- 

 cultural and horticultural lines. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



During the past few years much has been said in the press 

 of our state about a new Vermont. The forecast of the future 

 has been filled with promise and with hope for better things. 

 We all desire to see the vision a reality, but we must not forget 

 that its realization can be possible only through the persistent 

 effort of those who have in their keeping the industries of the 

 state. If Vermont is to grow there must be a growth in her 

 agriculture, her manufacture and her commerce. Perhaps, then, 

 it is fitting to consider to-day the part we may play as horticul- 

 turists in the making of a New Vermont. 



It has always been the pride of Vermont that her finest 

 product was her men and women. It has been her misfortune 

 that she has been unable to keep them. Boys from Vermont 

 farms have gone away — many of them to take part in the develop- 

 ment of the new states of the West, many to enter into the busi- 

 ness and professional life of cities. In consequence Vermont's 

 agriculture has suffered. 



Why have they gone? I believe a cause has been the trend 

 of education. From the district school through the preparatory 

 school and on through college the education has all been city- 

 ward. The child in the country school with a wealth of material 

 at hand in field and forest and sky for the training of the mind 

 and of the senses has had to turn from these to the printed 



