THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 65 



Orlando Harrison, Vice President of the Maryland State Hor- 

 ticultiu-al Society, and an extensive nurseryman, gave a pleasant 

 word of greeting- from his Society, and complimented the work 

 of the Connecticut fruit growers. 



Ethelbert Bliss of Wilbraham and C. A. Whitney of Upton 

 spoke for the Massachusetts Fruit Growers Association. 



Mr. H. D. Lewis of Red Hook, N. Y., representing the New 

 York State Fruit Growers Association, spoke briefly. 



The regular program of the evening was then taken up, and 

 the following very interesting lecture on "The Fruit Garden" 

 was delivered by Prof. F. A. Waugh of the Department of 

 Horticulture of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



The Fruit Garden in its Relation to the Suburban and 



Farm Home. 



By Prof. F. A. IVatigJi of Amherst, Mass. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: 



The subject which I am asked to talk on this evening is fruit 

 gardening, more especially in its relationship to the suburban 

 home ; and the first thing we notice is that it is decidedly out 

 of fashion. The fruit garden is not a thing of the present 

 fashion. Some one has said, — I don't know whether it was J. H. 

 Hale or Socrates — that you might as well be out of the w'orld 

 as out of style, but I don't believe it applies in this case. There 

 are many people who make a business of not following the 

 styles, and they get along very well. But this is one of the styles 

 that I think is coming back into vogue. 



Fruit gardening is a fad, and one reason why it has not been 

 in fashion during the past fifteen years is because the whole 

 development of fruit has been away from the fruit gardens 

 and towards the commercial orchard. Men are now growing 

 fruit on a large scale, and the effort has been constantly in that 

 direction. It has influenced the fruit business, and pretty much 

 all the discussion regarding fruit culture has been directed to 

 this phase of the subject and away from the fruit garden. A 

 fruit garden is something on which to spend your spare time, 

 and is a matter of pride ; but an orchard is a business proposi- 

 tion. It exists in order to make money for somebody. A fruit 



