166 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



" and the product was ten and a half pounds, or nearly at the rate 

 of one hundred bushels per acre." The conclusion is, that we 

 bury too much seed by unscientific farming. 



Mr. E. P. Roe made two acres of land yield a gross return of 

 more than two thousand dollars. Members of the New Jersey 

 Horticultural Societ}' have made early cabbages produce 8435 

 per acre, and early tomatoes $585 per acre. 



Mr. J. S. Potter, consul at Crefeld, Germany, gives suggestive 

 facts in regard to two farms, situated side by side, the one con- 

 taining ten acres, and the other twent}'. The owner of the ten- 

 acre farm had been a teacher in an agricultural school in Germany, 

 and worked his farm scientifically, and thus secured from it a 

 comfortable living for himself and family. The owner of the 

 other farm had a picked-up knowledge of farming, and "while 

 working much harder, with double the investment in land, accom- 

 plished with less tidy and genteel accompaniments the same 

 results." 



A farm in France, that had been planted with olive trees, and 

 yielded a rental of $115 a year, was planted with roses, geraniums, 

 tuberoses, and jonquils, for the manufacture of perfumes. The 

 fourth year it yielded perfumes valued at S43,154, giving a net 

 profit of $7,767. 



In the wheat contest of 1889, William Gibbey, of Utah, raised 

 eighty bushels on a single acre. In the corn contest, Z. J. Drake 

 took two hundred and fiftN'-five bushels of shelled corn from an 

 acre In the potato contest, Alfred Rose raised one thousand and 

 thirty-one bushels of potatoes on an acre. These results were 

 due to the careful preparation and adequate fertilization of the 

 soil, and good care of the growing crops. A neighbor of mine 

 last year realized over $140 from his pear trees occupying hardly 

 a quarter of an acre of ground. 



The education of children in horticulture is no new thing. 

 Sweden, France, Bavaria, and Austria have had school gardens 

 man}' years. The normal schools of Austria give instruction in 

 the care of the mulberry' tree, bees, grape vines, and orchards. 

 The Austrian public school law reads, " In ever}' school a gym- 

 nastic ground, a garden for the teacher, according to the circum- 

 stances of the communit}', and a place for the purposes of 

 agricultural experiment, are to be created." School inspectors 

 are "To see to it that, in the country' schools, school gardens 



