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which can be reflected back upon horticulture and agricult- 
ure to make our science as useful as it is. Whatever gives 
floriculture or horticulture in any of its branches useful and 
valuable aid and service, likewise gives a stimulus to the 
entomological relations of that science. I have no idea 
that Professor Trelease or any of the gentlemen interested 
in this Garden have had entomological instruction in mind 
to-night, though they all see the necessity for it. Profes- 
sor Trelease tells you he feels the necessity for the services 
of an entomologist from time to time to protect the plants 
and flowers which are growing in the Garden, and I would 
say that in time there will be connected, no doubt, an ento- 
mologist with the horticultural or floricultural enterprise. 
Hon. Charles E. Hay, of Springfield, Ill., was then called 
upon, and made the following remarks upon orchid grow- 
ing by amateurs, a matter in which he has had much expe- 
rience and flattering success: — 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: As Mr. Trelease was 
making his introductory remarks, the thought came up to 
me of a time when I went to hear a temperance lecture. A 
gentleman who was an advocate of total abstinence was 
traveling with the finest specimen of a drunken tramp that 
was ever seen. Some one asked him why he carried that 
man around with him, and he said, ‘* To show every one 
the awful results of drunkenness.’’ In my case, I presume 
I am the awful example of a man who might be called an 
amateur florist,— that is, one who has not been taught by 
others, but has simply taught himself. A number of years 
ago, I thought I would cultivate a few flowers, and I went 
to a practical business friend who had succeeded even bet- 
ter than I have since, and he told me that I might meet 
with many disappointments: that I would find no fish 
on the geraniums, although there are plenty of 
fish geraniums ; that I would not find on the hubbard 
squashes any Mother Hubbard dresses, nor would I find 
any New York counts or blue points on the salsify. And 
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