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but I mean in the broadest sense of the term, as it has been 
spoken of here this evening; not only fruits, but gardens, 
flowers, our parks, our cemeteries, our yards, our roadside 
planting and landscape gardening, —all these are interest- 
ing our florists, our seedmen and our gardeners; they all 
belong to this great realm of horticulture ; and when you 
come to ask me the needs of Missouri in these respects, I 
must say that I can scarcely tell you what Missouri needs. 
We need good orchards first, and the knowledge required 
to grow those orchards. We need good gardens and devel- 
opment in the home adornment. We need development in 
the planting of the roadsides and in the flower beds of our 
yards, and also in landscape gardening. A noted landscape 
gardener came to Kansas City not many years ago, and I 
took him out to the south side of the city, and there, upon 
the hills as they were rolling out in beautiful lines south of 
the city, he said, ‘* What a beautiful place to make a park ! 
What a beautiful place for a residence portion!”’ And 
then he showed on the top of the hill, how a road ought to 
run, —just around the edge of it; not straight streets cut 
across the others at right angles, but with this main road 
winding around the hill. And I wished then that such a 
thing could happen. That is one of the needs. I would 
that we might see such a development in our landscape 
gardening, in laying out our grounds and in laying out the 
plans for the opening up of new lands adjoining our cities. 
We need more knowledge in all this work. The knowl- 
edge that we have in the growth of horticulture is so 
limited. We hardly think that a tree can feel, that a tree can 
be injured, that a tree can weep; and sometimes, as I pass 
through an orchard, or asI pass through a yard, and see 
some trees broken, twisted, pruned wrongly,— why, it seems 
when I see a man doing that work, as if he was cutting 
my hand instead of the tree; it hurts me all over. Trees 
do feel; trees do weep— trees do ask for things to eat, 
for something to drink; and when we come to realize some 
of those things, we will better know what to do for them. 
