THE HORTICULTURAL AWAKENING OF NEW ENGLAND. t / 



been rushing to the far West, paying $300 to $500 per acre for 

 apple lands, which would have to pay $300 per car freight to reach 

 our markets and then sell for less money than the New England 

 apples of quality, that can be grown on $25 per acre land and pay 

 less than $50 per car freight to reach the thirty million people 

 living in the northeastern corner of the United States. 



To the conference of New England governors held in this city 

 three years ago, that banquet given to 600 New Englanders by 

 the Boston Chamber of Commerce at the time of the great fruit 

 show in October, 1909, and to Charles M. Cox, and his fellow work- 

 ers, on the agricultural committee of the Boston Chamber of 

 Commerce, much credit should be given for the intelligent way 

 they are presenting New England's horticultural advantages to 

 those who were blind before. And while a few years ago State 

 street was shy of investing in landed operations so near at home, 

 things are changing and the right men can now get all the money 

 they want for its development. 



Sylvester Baxter's article on "Golden New England" in the 

 Outlook magazine and the contributions of Forrest Crissey in the 

 Saturday Evening Post, all conspire to present our horticulture 

 in its true light and largely account for the horticultural awakening 

 that is turning all eyes to New England as the "Undiscovered 

 country" of America. Overplanting may never go quite so far 

 here as it has in the Northwest, yet I doubt not but what "boom" 

 orchard companies, controlled by inexperienced, impractical, and 

 possibly unscrupulous men, will ere long be offering stocks and 

 bonds of their schemes or be working over the old Western one of 

 selling orchard tracts to be cared for on the installment plan. 



Unquestionbly there is a field here for legitimate investment 

 in our orchard properties if handled by men of wide experience 

 and strict integrity. However, danger signals should be hung 

 out warning the inexperienced from town and country that good 

 fruits are not to be grown on "Easy street, ' that money, skill, 

 hard work, love of trees and plants, and long, patient waiting are 

 even more important factors than our splendid soil, fine climate, 

 -and superb market conditions. 



