04 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1904. 



a tree or to plant a vine in any available place, spring or fall, 

 care for them to maturity and rejoice at their fruiting. There- 

 fore plant fruit trees, and if you do not live to enjoy the fruit, 

 someone else will. But more than all else the apple, the pear, 

 the peach, the plum, surrounding the ideal New England 

 market gardener's home, will add to its value and remain long 

 a reminder of his true worth. 



Specializing is now prevailing, so that the grower of many 

 varieties of yesterday, is today the producer of only one or 

 two. The market gardener becomes the florist, a degree higher 

 perhaps in scientific knowledge, but not in the enlightened 

 mind and progression, which must always lead in the growing 

 of the necessary and substantial fruit and vegetable products. 

 I am a fruit grower because I like and am in love with the 

 business; this branch of which occupies perhaps one-half of 

 my premises, and is the very ideal of the pleasure in my lousiness. 

 The acquisition of great wealth, now prevailing, is as nothing 

 in comparison to pleasure in one's life, found only in content- 

 ment of mind and being in love with his business. The great 

 Bismarck, asked to define "Happiness," replied: "The gardener 

 in his own garden, pruning knife in hand." 



To specialize means investment of capital, a venture in a 

 few rather than in the many crops. This question, is it best, 

 is for the individual, his surroundings, his advantages and his 

 capital, but greater and above all, brains, the educated, scientific 

 common sense. 



The question once asked was : "Is the greenhouse necessary 

 for the market gardener and the farmer " ; while at the present 

 time, "Is the farm necessary for the greenhouse?" 



The use of immense quantities of glass for floriculture and 

 vegetable growing will still continue to multiply, for soil sterili- 

 zation has settled the question as to the safe investment of 

 capital in this business, beyond a reasonable doubt. There is 

 no doubt of the fact that this discovery of partial sterilization 

 of the soil by heat applied through perforated steam pipes 

 up to a temperature of 212 degrees will cleanse the soil of 



