THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 33. JANUARY, 1904. Na. i. 



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iograpl^y. 



PROF. SAMUEL B. GREEN, ST. ANTHONY PARK. 



Samuel B. Green was born in Chelsea, Mass., in 1859. His 

 father was ex-Mayor Thomas Green, of Chelsea, who held many 

 important public trusts. He was a wholesale flour dealer in Boston 

 for forty years. 



Although born in a city he spent all his summers on a New 

 Hampshire farm, developing early a taste for agriculture. He de- 

 termined when very young to be a farmer, and his father said if he 

 was to be a farmer he must be an educated one. 



At sixteen he entered Massachusetts Agricultural College, but 

 being short of funds in his third year he gave up his college course 

 and for nearly a year worked on a milk and fruit farm, when he 

 returned and graduated with his class, taking the first prize ($50) 

 for the best written and oral examination on agricultural subjects. 

 Two days after the graduation exercises he became superin- 

 tendent of the Vine Hill Farm, of West Hartford, Conn. Here he 

 had charge of about seventy head of Jersey and Guernsey cattle, 

 besides other stock, and also a large amount of fruit, employing about 

 nineteen men. After nearly a year's experience in this position, 

 failing to see much of a future for himself in farming in New Eng- 

 land his attention was turned to gardening, where he decided there 

 was a little opening, 



Mr. Green now commenced his horticultural work, resolved to 



thoroughly master every detail, for he believed there was more profit 



in this than in other branches of farming for one with but little 



capital, and he often changed his employers, several times to work 



^for less money, in order to better learn the various phases of his 



O^business. The first season he worked for a farm gardener who 



dj raised fruit and vegetables for the Boston market, and then returned 



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