46 Second Annual Report 



I do not need to speak to you about Vermont apple growers. 

 If you want to see successful apple growing, go up to Mr. 

 Kinney's farm,, or to the farm of some other Vermont men. You 

 grow good apples ; you have an apple growing country. 



Is there success in horticulture? There is if you make it. 

 If not, no. It all depends upon what your measure is of success. 

 If your measure of success is merely the money you make, then, 

 perhaps, farming is not the most successful profession in the 

 world ; but the horticulturist or farmer lives near to nature, and 

 enjoys a strong, temperate, satisfied life. 



In going to the meetings, I am always impressed to note the 

 difference between the meetings of farmers and the meetings 

 of men of other professions and occupations. The latter often 

 strive to belittle other businesses and hold their own up as a 

 money making enterprise. When I go to a farmers' meeting 

 I find that they have a program which is not only going to bene- 

 fit them, but all mankind. At the State Grange meeting held 

 at Ogdensburg — from which place I came here — they were dis- 

 cussing "Good roads," "Rural mail delivery," "The election of 

 senators by the people," and other public questions. 



I believe in horticulture as an occupation. I am confi- 

 dent that there are just as good openings in horticultural pur- 

 suits right here in Vermont as there are in other kinds of 

 agricultural enterprises ; and if a man has the training and 

 advantages and a desire to succeed and make and seize oppor- 

 tunities, his success will be as great as in any other profession. 



[The speaker cited numerous cases of successful practice in hor- 

 ticulture, and read some interesting literature.] 



SOME OBSERVATIONS ON EUROPEAN HORTI- 

 CULTURE. 



BY L. R. JONES, UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT. 



Mention was made of the evidence of the unprogressive- 

 ness in the south of Europe as compared with the more northern 

 and western portions, illustrated by the training of grape vines 

 upon a living tree as universally practiced in Italy, whereas 

 from the moment of the passage of the boundary into Austria 

 the trellis comes into use. 



The thrift of the Germans is evidenced by the planting 

 of fruit trees along highways. These are often planted and 

 cared for by the school children, although they are usually the 

 property of the community. Cherries are very commonly 

 planted thus, and give bountiful crops of the finest table fruits, 



