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almost everything: with his own hands. I think it hardly 

 possible for a young man brought up in town, who has gone 

 through the city schools and then gone to college and taken 

 a scientific course, to be fitted to teach in a horticultural 

 college. 



For a teacher of horticulture, I want a young man born 

 upon a farm, whose father and mother had an appreciation 

 of the farm, and who have fostered a love of it in the son, 

 and, after having given him good school advantages, T want 

 him to have a good scientific education upon that, and then, 

 if he is a level-headed man, he is just what we want. We 

 consider ourselves extremely fortunate in the state of Mich- 

 igan in having a young man who was brought up in this 

 way. He was brought up to know the value of the details 

 in connection with agriculture with reference to making a 

 living out of it (and that is an important thing), and then 

 having a college education and a good, practical head upon 

 him, we feel that we have a wonderful man for the position 

 he is in. 



When I took my course in horticulture, I found out by go- 

 ing into a nursery for nine months following that I learned 

 more about a knowledge of horticulture that would help me 

 to a success in life than I had learned in the four years I 

 had spent in college. Do j'ou wonder that I was a little 

 skeptical about what our agricultural colleges were doing 

 for horticulture? I thought upon that subject for a long 

 time, and it seemed to me that I ought to come out of col- 

 lege with a better knowledge of the details. I could not 

 graft nor I could not prune trees with any satisfaction what- 

 ever. I had to get that information afterwards. I want the 

 tuition in horticulture to be scientific connected with other 

 branches, but I want it to go right along with the practical 

 operations in horticulture. 



Now, I want to say a word about society work. There 

 are a great many people who have hot had the advantages 

 of school, who have never been to college and cannot avail 

 themselves of the advantages obtained in schools and col- 

 leges, that must get the information somewhere in order to 

 get the large share of comfort they ought to receive in con- 



