THE SECRETARY'S PORTFOLIO. 



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Harrison, Painesville, Ohio; E. A. Bronson ; Dr. F. M. Hexainer, Philadel- 

 phia; J.S.Woodward, Lockport, N. Y. ; Julius IIarris,vMew York; \V. D. 

 Philbrick, Massachusetts; P. D. Curtis, New York; "Wm. 8. Little, Eochester, 

 N. Y. ; C. E. llewes : Josiah Iloopes, Penn. ; H. II. Ilunnewoll, Boston, Mass. 

 Thomas Meehan, Philade]j)hia, Penn.; Wm. Falconer, Boston, Mass.; M. 

 Milton, Mansfield, Ohio; Jno. A. Warder, Ohio; T.C.Dewey, Kansas; B. 

 F. Johnson, Champaign, 111. 



For purposes of reference I present the following scheme of general topics in 

 the order they will be reached in the following pages : 



Scientific and Expekimental. 

 Societies and Organizations. 

 The Nursery. 

 Insects and Eemedies. 

 Birds and Bees. 



1. 



2. 

 3. 

 4. 

 5. 



6. 



7. 



Diseases. 

 Pomology. 



a. General Orcharding. 



b. Apples. 



c. Pears. 



d. Peaches. 



e. Small Fruits. 



/. Grapes. 



//. ) Cultivation, Pruning, 

 h. ( Thinning and Mulching. 

 9i. Fertilizers. 



Preservinij Fruits. 



J 



I: Storing and Marketing. 



8. The Vegetable Garden. 



9. Floriculture. 



10. Forestry and Arboriculture. 



11. Landscape Gardening. 



12. The Inner Home. 



13. Miscellaneous Essays. 



Secretary. 



SCIENTIFIC AND EXPERIMENTAL. 



DARWINISM AND HORTICULTURE. 



The London Garden thinks that horticulturists have the best of reasons for 

 writing eulogies upon Darwin. 



At first sight it might appear that the theory o( "evolution" and the "origin 

 of species" had but little relation to practical horticulture. But this would be 

 to take a very narrow view of the scope and aim of the latter. Besides, the 

 wonderful array of facts which Darwin has gleaned from the wide field of 

 botany and horticulture is, in itself, the most valuable contribution to the 

 advancement of the science and practice of Horticulture. Whatever advances 

 our knowledge of vegetable life or enlarges our conceptions of its marvelous 

 adaptations and forces, likewise increases our power over it. Hence Darwin's 

 facts, apart from the theories they establish, and with which his name will be 

 forever associated, are so much more accumulated force and power over nature 

 placed] within the reach of cultivators. Granting the truth of the theory of 



