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cause of horticulture who have given the strength of man- 

 hood and the wisdom of years to originating and improving 

 the fruits of the orchard, the world owes a debt of lasting 

 gratitude; they have made hearts glad, homes happy, the 

 world better and more beautiful because they have lived in 

 it, and when they have finished their life work, they will be 

 remembered as benefactors to mankind. 



discussion. 



Pres. Smith — Ladies and gentlemen, we have a little 

 time that we can spare for discussing of this paper, and I 

 want to assure you that Mrs. Huntley has not given us any 

 fancy sketch. Her home is a very plea.sant one, and is a 

 bower of beauty. If she has mentioned anything you have 

 not thoroughly understood, I am sure she will be glad to 

 answer any questions. 



Prof. Garfield — Essayists upon home culture say noble, 

 beautiful and good things, and although people appreciate 

 them at the time, they go home and never practice a word 

 of what is said in the essay. Now these beautiful things 

 that are said, especially by ladies whose hearts are inter- 

 ested in this home culture, ought to sink deep in our hearts. 

 I wish I could go into more homes where intelligence is used 

 in the cultivation of plants and flowers. If you will pardon 

 me I will say just a word as to the practice in some homes. 

 I do not believe in a man saying, " Those are my wife's 

 plants. I don't know anything about them. I know how 

 wheat fields should be managed, but I don't know anything 

 about those things." If there are two people that make up 

 that household, those plants should be our plants. When 

 my wife and I go into the garden I do not want her to say 

 that her husband has had pretty good success with some 

 things. I was at the house of a lady one day, who, showing 

 me about the place, said of a wheat field, " This is the first 

 year we have grown wheat on this land," and when we 

 went into the barn yard it was, "Here is some stock we got 

 some years ago." Every time it was we or our. I think 



