No. 4.] MARKET GARDENING. 85 



SECOND DAY. 



The meeting was called together at 10.40 a.m., by Chair- 

 man Wood, who said : Mr. J. Lewis Ellsworth, delegate 

 from the "Worcester Agricultural Society, will preside at the 

 meeting this forenoon. 



Mr. Ellsworth. The subject presented for discussion 

 this forenoon is "Market gardening." The importance of 

 this branch of farming is increasing every year. The de- 

 mand for the product of the market garden is increasing, to 

 keep pace with the large increase in population in our cities. 

 It is my pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to introduce to you 

 a fellow townsman, one with whom I have been closely con- 

 nected for a number of years, as our business is similar, and 

 also in the society of which he is secretary, the Worcester 

 County Market Gardeners' Association. He thoroughly 

 understands the gardening business, taking the great major- 

 ity of prizes of the Worcester Horticultural Society, and 

 occasionally running down to Boston and taking the prizes 

 from the horticultural society there. It is my pleasure to 

 introduce to you Mr. H. R. Kinney of Worcester. 



Mr. KixNEY. I do not come before you as a^ lecturer or 

 as a college graduate, neither have I had the advantages of 

 apprenticeship. What I have learned about vegetables I have 

 learned at meetings of this kind, and from practice and from 

 a practical application of all the knowledge which came 

 within my reach. 



