94 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1899. 



to introduce J. E. C. Farnhani, President of tiie Rhode Island 

 Society. 



Mr. Farnham said the poet has told us that one touch of 

 nature makes the whole world kin, and he felt the force of that 

 remark anew as he looked on the faces of the people before him, 

 who had participated in the same good fare. Horticulture has 

 come to be a very important industry in the great marts of trade. 

 From New York to California there are poured into our section 

 the fruits of all the country. Trades focalize and come together, 

 and we work each for all and all for each. I have been 

 impressed with the strength of this Society. I congratulate you 

 on the possession of this magniticent property. From this 

 section of the country has gone forth the brain and brawn and 

 intelligence and energy which has made the country what it is. 

 Back of the industries we come back to the maiden soil. 



B. P. Wake, of Marblehead, Vice-President of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, spoke for that organization. We 

 in Boston could not get up such an occasion as this, for we lack 

 the social elements. You may be surprised when I tell you I 

 used not so many years ago to team into Boston with a two-horse 

 load of cabbages, and there met a Worcester man with a one- 

 horse load of huckleberries, and we swapped loads. We are 

 noted in Marblehead for our cabbage heads. Marblehead cab- 

 bages teamed all the way to Worcester was a fact only a com- 

 paratively short time ago. 



You send your products down to Boston and beat out our 

 farmers and other places, and there are a few market gardeners 

 in Worcester who bring down to Boston stuff which always win 

 prizes. 



Samuel T. Maynard, Professor of Horticulture in Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, spoke for the Massa- 

 chusetts Fruit Growers' Association, which he called a child of 

 the Horticultural Society. Prof Maynard defended the institu- 

 tion against a charge that the Agricultural College was doing 

 much the same work as the other educational institutions of the 

 State. The college has graduated 500 men, of whom 40 per 



