oS STATE HOKTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Dorr: Good soil makes good Hill's Chili; possibly the soil on the lake 

 shore is not good enough to grow this variety. 



Mr. llealy : The better the soil the more prolific it is, the longer the wool 

 oil its surface. 



Mr. Lyon : I confess your exjierience here is very different from ours on 

 the lake shore. There we call it a poor peach in quality, and I think, take 

 the record of the variety geuerally, and you will find yourselves singular in this 

 respect. 



Porter Beal : A good judgment may generally be based on the calls of the 

 consumers, and they always want more of Hill's Chili. 



Mr. Stowell: What is the best keeping grape for our climate? 



Dr. Owen : In my experience the Isaballa stands best, but my location 

 allows me to ripeu it well. I ate my last ones only a few days ago. 



Mr. Satterlee: As a long keeper I like the Agawam very much. 



Dr. Owen : I keep the Clinton until February. 



Mr. Lyon : Tlie main objection to all tlie long keepers is that they are not 

 good enough, but I suppose we must put up with that. The Diana keeps well 

 and so does the Salem. 



Evening Sessioji. 



After music, the first paper of the evening was given by Mr. A. D. Healy, on 



EDUCATION AXD HORTICULTURE. 



It is not possible for one who is uneducated to grow beautiful flowers, fruit, 

 or vegetables, for with him it is nearly all a mechanical process. But if there 

 is a spot upon earth where a good education and a high order of intelligence 

 are required, it is in the garden and orchard ; and the want of this is the cause 

 of so many failures, or if a partial success is obtained it seems almost a matter 

 of chance. In the beautiful gardens and parks that adorn our cities the head 

 gardeners are educated men ; they are prepared to explain all about the jilants 

 under their care, and of any plant growth that adorns these beautiful yards 

 and parks. They are familiar with foreign as well as our domestic fruits; in 

 fact they are educated to their business as well as tlie best of our doctors, law- 

 yers, or teachers, etc., and often very much more thoroughly, for they love 

 their chosen occupation for something more than money. The result is, the 

 gardens under their care always look beautiful, which is often wrongfully 

 attributed to the supposed superior advantage they may have in soil or location, 

 when the fact is, their success entirely de):)ends upon their knowledge of the 

 business. 



It costs no more to make a rose bloom in Lincoln Park, Chicago, or Central 

 Park, New York, than it does in the humblest farmer's yard. The extra cost 

 involved is in the large number of roses made to bloom, and the superior char- 

 acter of the beds in which they are planted. Our horticulturists as a class are 

 highly intelligent, and it is to that we owe our remarkable success in horticul- 

 ture. The little wild blackberry has developed into that magnificent Kittatinny; 

 the apple has been increased in size, beauty, in color, and enriched in flavor; 

 the peach, from the little fuzzy, bitter, worthless thing to the grand Old- 

 mixon, or the monster Susquehanna. In fact, the whole catalogue of fruits 

 can scarcely be recognized as descendants from the old time fruits. 



