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carried on to-day ; but a watchful man, by observing the 

 changes in taste that are continually going on about him, can 

 change from one thing to another and still meet the demand 

 of the market. I have in mind a man who is one of the 

 largest growers of roses that we have in this part of the 

 country. He was telling me some years ago how he got led 

 into the growing of roses. In one day he has sent seven 

 thousand blooms into Boston market. He was originally a 

 nurseryman, and thirty-five years ago he raised a miscella- 

 neous stock and had a miscellaneous experience. About the 

 time that the fashion for French pears came up, he caused a 

 little invoice to be sent to him for his own use, to plant in 

 his garden. His customers came there, and, seeing his trees, 

 they desired one and another ; and finally he found he had 

 sold them all, and he had to get a new stock. Then he found 

 that that was being made a specialty, and he went into it 

 until he imported in one invoice four hundred thousand 

 French stocks and worked them himself. The time came 

 when the demand fell ofi" ; but while it lasted he found that this 

 business kept him busy during the summer months merely, 

 and he must have something to keep his men employed dur- 

 ino; the winter. He found that if he discharged the men 

 whom he desired for his assistants during the period of bud- 

 ding and preparing the stocks, when that work was over he 

 could not replace them the next season, so he went to work 

 and erected some greenhouses and raised plants and flowers 

 for the market, and thus kept his men busy. From that 

 grew the introduction of roses, and just as the demand for 

 pear trees fell ofi" the demand for roses increased, and he is 

 now the most successful and prosperous raiser of roses in 

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Take a man in Rhode Island. I went down there a year 

 ago to examine and perhaps make some suggestions with 

 regard to some improvements that were being made for a man 

 who was raising pickles, — a man whose father before him had 

 had a small farm and raised cucumbers for the market. I 

 saw ten thousand barrels of cucumbers pickling in vats. 

 The man is a prosperous and wealthy man, who raises cucum- 

 bers upon a hundred and eighty acres of land, — such land as 

 scarcely any farmer could make any use of for general farm- 



