82 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



Gardening as a Profession. 



BY SAMUEL MILLER. 



While at Columbia, a lady wished to introduce her nephew to me, 

 saying that he had gone through a regular collegiate education, studied 

 law, commenced practice, became disgusted with it, and I don't won- 

 der, and was now going into horticulture. This, to me, was a marvel, 

 and when I was introduced to him, said that if I could in any way 

 assist him he could draw upon me freely. 



The time is coming when this branch of industry will be much 

 more extensively followed than now. Our people are fast becoming a 

 vegetable and fruit-eating people, and less dependent on animal food. 



A visit to Henry Schnell, at Glasgow, shows what can be done in 

 this line, and a description of his place may interest many readers and 

 induce others, near to little inland towns, to engage in the business. 



Six years ago he bought 40 or 50 acres of land two miles east of 

 Glasgow, and at once commenced operations, having previously car- 

 ried on ''trucking " a little nearer town, and thus had some experience 

 and a fair start. He has on his new place the following: GOO apple 

 trees of the leading varieties, five years planted ; 250 pear trees, same 

 age; 200 peach trees, from one to five years planted; 50 cherry trees, 

 five years planted ; 100 apricots, same age, some Russians among them ; 

 and in strawberries four acres, raspberries three, blackberries one, cur- 

 rants, gooseberries and grapes half acre, asparagus one acre, a good- 

 sized green-house, and 4000 feet of sash for hot-beds and cold frames. 



This season he bedded 70 bushels of sweet potatoes, and when I 

 was there they were pretty closely pulled, and with lots of orders on 

 hand to be filled yet. 



His strawberry crop was perhaps more than half picked, and yet, 

 if they got a good rain soon, there might be 60 to 100 bushels of fruit 

 to pick. 



He employs about a dozen hands regularly and pays them good 

 wages, so that all moves along smoothly. I would lay a wager ( were 

 I a betting man ) that in all his cultivated grounds, acres of cabbage, 

 young asparagus beds, onions, beans, etc., there could not a barrow 

 full of weeds be found. 



He has two teams on the go most of the time, and sends his fruit, 

 as well as vegetables, all over the country. His name is enough to 

 guarantee anything he sends out to be true to name. I got strawberry 



