104 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1893. 



It might be possible to make money witliout the first, a love for the 

 business ; it is very evident that it would be impossible to make money 

 without the second, an ability to conduct such business. 



While it is necessary in order to make a success of any undertak- 

 ing, as a rule, to be able to get a sufficient profit to pay 100 cents on 

 a dollar it does not seem to me as though it was necessary for a man 

 to increase his bank account to make a success in market gardening 

 or even to be paying off his debt rapidly. The young gardener usually 

 has a family and usually when not near a metropolis owns his place 

 and if he considers making money essential to success, then the more 

 money he makes the more successful he is. 



Now this is dangerous, not for his creditors, but for himself and 

 family ; not that there is any danger of his making a great fortune, 

 but rather in the strife to make money he and his family, especially 

 his wife, will be liable to work so hard as to lose all the love they 

 may have had originally for the business and be unable to get the real 

 enjoyment out of the many advantages of life in the country, espec- 

 ially near a city or town. 



It is not necessary or desirable that we should consider our busi- 

 ness the best business there is, or the only one that we could consent 

 to do. 



To make a success of market gardening it is necessary to enter it 

 with the intention of not only trying to get an honest living, but much 

 real enjoyment from our gardens, not one or two members of the 

 family, but if possible, every one, and this can be best accomplished 

 by there being as near perfect harmony as possible : where there is a 

 feeling that we — the men — earn all the money and must have the best 

 of tools to work with, while they — the women — can get along with 

 anything in the house, there may perhaps appear to be perfect har- 

 mony, but we would hardly expect to find perfect happiness. 



We, as gardeners, as well as the farmers, have been in the habit of 

 considering that we, as well as our wives and children, could work 

 from twelve to sixteen hours per day and live as long and enjoy life 

 as well as though we worked less, or if we couldn't enjoy ourselves 

 and work in that way it didn't make any difference. We must work 

 to make a living, a success, in other words — to make money. 



I believe there are many men, especially those who have brought 

 up families, who die comparatively poor, who have made a greater 

 success of life than many who die well off or rich. 



There are few classes of men that should be better judges of the 

 value of a dollar than the gardener or farmer, but I think there are 



