206 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The Future of Market Gardening in New England. 



By H. F. Hall, Waban, Massachusetts. 



Ladies and gentlemen : I thonght my talk would be 

 -almost unnecessary, as it is getting late, and I will assure you 

 I will not detain you very long. I thought perhaps I would 

 'be something like the n.an who wrote an anthem and he 

 w^anted to try it out in the church sometime, and they finally 

 told him when they had a supper one night they would try it 

 on the audience and see how it hit them. So, on this particu- 

 lar night, the chorister said he would bring it in at the proper 

 time. It went on and the author got tired of waiting and he 

 went out and waited. When he came back the audience were 

 going out. The author said : "Why didn't you sing my 

 anthem?" The chorister replied: 'T don't think it is neces- 

 sary, they are going home without it. (Laughter.) So I 

 thought perhaps you would go home without my address. 



I have been here during the day and listened to the very 

 interesting talks on fruit, and I have almost been persuaded 

 to go home and set out trees on our vegetable land. I am 

 glad to see the fruit men are optimists, and we vegetable men 

 must take the same position. In fact, a great deal has been 

 said here in regard to grading and packing that can be applied 

 with equal force to the vegetable industry in New England, 

 and when I speak, I speak more particularly of New England. 

 One thing I have generally noticed throughout New England 

 is that grand and undying loyalty every grower seems to have 

 for his particular state. I think that we have noticed that par- 

 ticularly at this meeting. Now, I am primarily a New Hamp- 

 shire man now living in INIassachusetts, and while I spent 

 most of my time in New Hampshire, I feel that Massachusetts 

 is my home state, and my thoughts run almost parallel with the 

 man from Boston who once said if he were to be born a hun- 

 dred times he would go back to Boston every time for that im- 

 portant event. (Laughter.) 



