130 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



President Eddy : We are now to have the illustrated 

 address we have all been looking forward to with much in- 

 terest. I am glad to introduce to you Mr. H. B. Fullerton of 

 Huntington. L. I., who will tell us of "Pioneer Work in the De- 

 \elopment of Fruit and Vegetable Gardening on Long Island 

 Waste Lands." 



(Mr. Fullerton's intensely interesting address, which occu- 

 pied nearly one and one-half hours, was illustrated with many 

 lantern slides. It is possible to give here only the following 

 brief resume of the lecture :) 



Pioneer Work in the Development of Fruit and Vegetable 

 Gardening on Long Island Waste Lands. 



By H. B. Fullerton. Huntington. L. I. 



Mr. President. Ladies and Gentlemen : — 



Over on Long Island we have an immense acreage, some 

 200,000 acres, upon which nothing can be raised, so tradition 

 says. Most people think of Long Island as a sort of Coney 

 Island, a long sandy bathing beach, but never as a territory on 

 wdiich to carry on market gardening. In that business you 

 have to think of transportation facilities wherever you go, and 

 that is the thing most of us are inclined to forget, although it 

 is the one thing above all others, that has developed the United 

 States, and that enables your townsman to go down to Georgia 

 and raise peaches and help the poor hungry New Yorker out. 

 The railroad has done more for the territory through which it 

 passes than the original inhabitants think, and railroads must 

 develop their territory to make themselves paying investments. 



\\dien Mr. Ralph Peters became president of the Long 

 Island Railroad he found 240.000 acres of idle land, within 

 easy distance of the largest market in the world. The west 

 end of Long Island is the residential section of New York- 

 City ; the eastern portion, the bulk of it. is uncultivated, except- 

 ing a small portion. Mr. Peters asked me how much wild 

 acreage we had better try for market gardening, as an object 

 lesson, and I told him ten acres was a great plenty. He said 

 to "Go ahead," and fifteen minutes later I was on the train 

 started for Wading River. The people told me the soil was 



