88 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1904. 



bearing fruit, guarding, protecting and beautifying nature and 

 our living home. 



Having conceived his ideal market garden, having planned 

 and framed in his mind, and then on paper, what he may 

 yet sometime see in reality. For every business has its ideal, — 

 the ideal manufacture, the ideal newspaper, the ideal school, 

 why not then the ideal market garden and farm? First of 

 all, no matter of what extent or limit his acreage, here he 

 plants his home, for the very nature of his business compels 

 him to locate as near the centre of his operations as he possibly 

 can, for his very success necessarily demands his presence here 

 as near central as it is possible to be. 



Home then, and its surroundings, must be considered, and 

 here the idealist expends his best thought, practical conven- 

 ience and comfort, in all things, for the family means much, — 

 location of buildings, one of these. 



The dwelling house, when possible, on the most prominent 

 and highest elevation, for convenience and drainage, as well 

 as oversight, and view of his surroundings and operations. 

 All this is essential, and adds pleasure to his business and 

 comfort to his home. Out-buildings separated, but at con- 

 venient distance from the dwelling. There are many things 

 to consider in the location of the principal out-buildings. Con- 

 venience in all things for which they are required, comes first 

 of all; comfort of the live stock; disposal of the manure; 

 and first of all the cellar should be made most convenient, 

 as the receptacle for storing and preserving fruit and vegetables 

 to be sold during the winter months. In our severe winter 

 climate, frost-proof cellars are absolutely necessary to success 

 in preventing great loss in perishal)le produce; walls made 

 rat proof, and cellar bottom cemented. To say, in after life, 

 when all is completed, the home that I live in, the out-buildings 

 and store-houses, the plant and greenhouses, — all those have 

 been built by me, or under my direction. This in itself consti- 

 tutes much in l3uilding up the ideal farm. You may call it 

 sentiment or what you will, but is there anything in this life 



