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in New England?" The results of 1892, which excel those 

 of all previous years, show that he is reaping to-day the 

 beneiit of his perseverance, patience and persistency in a 

 o^rand success. 



I have had some experience with small fruits, and I think 

 the first thing to strive for is to acquire a name for putting 

 up thoroughly honest goods. That will make a market for 

 those goods above the price of the general market. I com- 

 menced twenty-five years ago growing small fruits for the 

 A\^orcester market. At that time, except the Franconia 

 raspberries grown l:>y Mr. HadAven, who is the pioneer in 

 all horticultural matters in AYorcester County, there were 

 no small fruits grown there for that market. I was satisfied 

 that they could be grown to a profit, and I planted a field 

 of strawberries. The result was very satisfactory. But my 

 season was short, I had only a few weeks, and it occurred 

 to me to supplement my strawberries with raspberries, 

 blackberries and black-caps. So I took a journey through 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York State ; and 

 at that time the small fruits were first receiving puldic atten- 

 tion, and I discovered that the Philadelphia and Clark Rasp- 

 berry, the Kittatinny Blackberry and Wilson's Early Black- 

 berry were being introduced, AVhen I returned, having had 

 al)out the same experience as my friend Hale, I managed to 

 liorrow money enough to stock six or seven acres with small 

 fruits. I was the laughing-stock of the town of Worcester. 

 I submitted to that as gracefully as I could, as Mr. Hale has 

 to the ridicule of the peo})le of Glastonbury. It was very 

 rough then, but I have gathered over three thousand dollars' 

 worth of berries from my feAV acres. It was a successful 

 business operation, and others can do the same thing. 



But I want to get at this one thing. I take pride in my 

 good name. I had a force of fifteen or twenty pickers and 

 packers, who picked out the good honest berries, they were 

 packed in an attractive style, and brought from five to ten 

 cents a box above the market. It was very interesting to 

 me on Saturday evenings, when we had two hundred and 

 fifty or three hundred quarts of berries in the market, to 

 take a seat back and hear peo})lc iiujuire for Draper's 

 berries. It was my good name that sold those fruits. 



