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to the agricultural college for a post-graduate course of six months. 



The second season he worked for James J. H. Gregory, the 

 veteran seed and vegetable grower, and was occupied the following 

 winter in the greenhouses of Wm. C. Strong, the well known rose 

 grower and nurseryman of Brighton, Mass. The following spring 

 he took charge of the horticultural depaitment at the celebrated 

 Houghton Farm Experiment Station, at Cornwall, N. Y., where he 

 remained over three years. His work here, of raising and selling 

 fruits and vegetables in one of the most famous fruit regions of the 

 country, brought him into acquaintance with the prominent fruit 

 growers and with the New York City fruit markets. 



It was here that his natural love for the beautiful in nature was 

 especially developed in the landscape work which he carried on 

 under the direction of Mr. Samuel Parsons, Jr., then in charge of 

 Central Park, N. Y., and perhaps the best known specialist in land- 

 scape work in this country at that time, and who had the general 

 oversight of the laying out of the large grounds of the Houghton 

 Farm estate of i,ooo acres. 



Here Mr. Green carried on many interesting experiments, chiefly 

 in vegetable gardening. After remaining something over three 

 years, and giving eminent satisfaction, he felt he was not learning 

 fast enough and getting into a rut, and returned to Mr. Strong's 

 nursery as foreman, where he remained a little over a year. From 

 there he went to work as foreman in the Newton Cemetery Nurseries, 

 where he had an excellent opportunity to practice the summer propa- 

 gation of nursery stock, in which he wished to perfect himself, and 

 in which he was remarkably successful. 



From this place he was called to the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College as superintendent of the horticultural department under his 

 previous instructor, Prof. S. T. Maynard. There he remained 

 nearly two years, attending to the varied duties of the large depart- 

 ment which this institution maintains for the instruction of its 

 students and which comprises a commercial nursery, greenhouses 

 and market garden, the sales of which aggregated $5,000 to $7,000 

 per year. 



In the spring of 1888, he accepted the position of horticulturist 

 to the Minnesota Experiment Station, and the professorship of horti- 

 culture and applied botany in the Minnesota School of Agriculture. 

 In 1 89 1, when the agricultural college course in the state university 

 was reorganized, he was made full professor of horticulture in the 

 university and later his title was changed to professor of horticulture 

 and forestry. That his work here met with the approval of the 



