23d February, A. D. 1893. 



ESSAY 



BY 



HERBERT R. KINNEY, op Worcester. 

 Theme : — Successful Vegetable Gardening. 



Mr. President: 



While this subject might mean, to some of you, the way to make 

 the most mouey from the vegetable garden, it means more than that 

 to me. So, if I spend less time on the way to get the most dollars 

 from the business and more on the making it a true success, I trust 

 you will not doubt my sincerity but allow it as looking at the subject 

 in a different light. 



There are comparatively few great market gardeners and they are 

 men who would be a success in any line of business, and while it is 

 or should be beneficial for us, who are engaged in the same business, 

 to visit their places and listen to their essays. 



They handle the subject in a very different way from that practised 

 by the majority of those engaged in the business about small cities 

 and towns. 



As we have had a very able paper early in this course of meetings 

 on this subject by probably the ablest market gardener in New England 

 and one of the smartest speakers, on the subject, in the country, it 

 would seem to me proper to look at the subject from the standpoint 

 of the smaller gardener, and try and see if his success may not be as 

 real, if he so chooses, as those who carry on business on a much larger 

 scale. 



Success in any business depends on two things and of these I shall 

 place, 1st, a love of, or at any rate, an interest in, that business; 

 2nd, an ability to conduct such business ; and while these two might 

 be subdivided they seem to cover the whole ground in a general way. 



