' Vermont State Horticultural Society. 15 



"SOME POINTERS ON GROWING AND MARKETING 



FRUIT." 



T. L. KINNEY, SO. HERO, VT. 



Air. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — 



It gives me the greatest pleasure to come to this horticul- 

 tural convention — the tenth on our list, and to see such enthus- 

 iasm, such earnestness,, and such a grand exhibit of fruits and 

 flowers, the progress all along the line. It makes me think 

 that it is an advantage to have a dollar behind anything that is 

 worthy carrying on; and while we have been struggling for so 

 many years without very much financial aid — only as we hav^ 

 contributed ourselves — now we have a few hundred dollars behind 

 us to back us up along the lines of horticulture, and it has given 

 UP a great stimulus ; and not only the dollar, the Almighty Dol- 

 lar, but these dollars were appropriated by the State of Vermont, 

 by the Legislature of our State, and at a time when the Legis- 

 lature was loath to make an appropriation for anything, no mat- 

 ter whether it was good or bad, but our cause did receive their 

 attention, and almost a unanimous vote from the members of the 

 House and the Senate for the appropriation ; and our Governor 

 was interested too. I don't believe there was anything that he 

 signed with more good will and feeling than he did the bill for 

 this appropriation to aid the horticulturists of our State. So you 

 see, it is not only the dollar, but the feeling that exists between 

 the producers of the State of Vermont and the consumers, and 

 those people who represented us at Montpelier, who represented 

 the people of the State, the principle, the theory, the thought, 

 the feeling that they had for this great enterprise, that back us 

 up and give us more energy. We are glad of this gift ; we are 

 glad, indeed, that the money fell into such good hands as those of 

 Professor Stuart, who is using it with such w^onderfully good 

 results, a grand program and a grand exhibit of fruit, and a 

 good turn-out and a good interest. When our society has met. 

 many times in the different places, we have come together for 

 the first session with hardly a person to listen to the speeches 

 which were to be presented to them, but this time we have a 

 good attendance at the very start. 



The subject which has been given me is ''Some Pointers 

 on Growing and INIarkcting Fruit." I am heartily glad that 

 one of our Vermonters has given you such a grand talk along 

 the lines of starting the fruit and caring for it, starting the 

 orchard. I was in hopes l\Tr. Willard could have been here to 

 give us some points on "The Apple" before I had anything to 

 say upon the subject given me. 



