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home on this EngHsh estate, this cedar of Lebanon which came 

 from the land of scriptural histor\-. That tree had a spread of 

 about 130 feet in lateral diameter. It was about 60 feet high. 



Another tree of the cedar type is Lawson's cypress. Around 

 the villas in Italy it is one of the striking and characteristic 

 trees, just as the Lombardy poplar is one of the striking and 

 characteristic trees around many New England homesteads. 



BOTANIC GARDENS ON THE CONTINENT. 



In connection with the educational institutions there was 

 early established in Europe, particularly in Italy, the botanic 

 garden — a garden where plants were grown to illustrate their 

 economic use largely from the standpoint of medicine. In 

 this work the priests and the monks had a large part. 



This illustrates the rock features of a botanic garden. Here 

 we have a view of the orangery of Versailles, that most mag- 

 nificent of European gardens founded in the time of Louis XIV. 

 These oranges are moved into this building in cold weather. It 

 is only a view of a small part of that wonderful garden. The 

 love of gardens and plants is implanted in the heart of the 

 Italian. You have found, no doubt, by actual experience that 

 there is no better gardener, although perhaps with little practi- 

 cal training, than the average Italian, and I look upon them as 

 a very important factor in the civilization and development of 

 our country as it goes on, because they will bring to this country 

 their innate love of gardening. 



Here is a group of students which I had the pleasure of 

 addressing in a language which they didn't understand, never- 

 theless they were most' courteous and tried to applaud at the 

 right time. In Italy a good many of them did understand 

 French so that we got along fairly well. This represents a sec- 

 ondary school, not one of the colleges but one of the agricul- 

 tural high schools, and it simply happened to be a class of stu- 

 dents who were studying seeds at that time. 



This is a spray cart which hauls the spraying material to the 

 field, knapsack sprayers, operated by the workmen themselves. 

 American machinery is being introduced, however. Here we 

 have a view in the implement room in one of these colleges. I 

 was interested to see that they had a good many examples of 

 American machinery. 



