208 Wisconsin State Hoeticitltubal Sociktt. 



Well may we pause and ask, Whence is all this supply to be 

 obtained? Herein our state and local societies have a great 

 work yet to do. Every agricultural society, every grange and 

 club, and every form of farmers' associations should take up the 

 work of dissemination of facts among the people. Our state 

 farm should be a school of practical horticulture as well as of 

 experiment in farm crops, and intelligent, careful experiments 

 should be made in, and reported from every county of the state 

 to determine the best conditions that do exist, or can be made to 

 exist for growing good fruit in these several localities. The same 

 holds ffood for all other industries of our state as makina' for the 

 general welfare, but as horticulture is one of the higher arts of 

 our advanced civilization, it needs special protection and foster- 

 ing care from every citizen of the state. 



And what is the future prospect of horticulture in Wisconsin? 

 It is hopeful, and I trust will parallel the rapid growth of the 

 live stock and dairy interest of our state. I hope to see the 

 day when prairie farmers will not suffer the piercing winds of 

 winter to exhaust vitality and fodder, when their habitations and 

 farm yards can be so easily and cheaply protected by evergreen 

 and timber belts; when city will compete with country in good 

 gardens, and country vie with city in horticultural adornments 

 of the home. Churches and cemeteries will be made cheerful 

 with trees, shrubs and flowers, and even the country school yard — 

 that last place to beautify — where now our children play " wild 

 Arab " as if they were real children of the desert — yes, even the 

 country school yard will have the charms of horticulture in its 

 fittings, as a co-educator of the future citizen. 



In the way of fruit growing, we will plant understandingly, 

 and grow successfully, and with econom}'-, good apples as food 

 for man and beast all over our state. We will learn the limit of 

 each variety, and that those are of most value that can be grown 

 with certainty in a given locality. We will learn to conserve 

 our fruits in seasons of plenty, and learn the art of marketing 

 our surplus without pandering to depraved appetites, or tempt- 

 ing the weak with the ferment of the press. 



HorticultuKe,is ennoblino- to the individual, and wherever vou 



