336 State Horticultural Society. 



In many ways might I outline how reciprocity works to the ad- 

 vantage of the horticulturist. Instances, State Agricultural Colleges, how 

 they are working out the science of horticulture, how the fruit growers 

 are aiding them in their work and how freely these facts and ideas are 

 exchanged. The Experiment Stations, what a wonderful fund of infor- 

 mation they are exchanging with each other day by day, and not only 

 with each other, but with all the world. How gladly nature also responds 

 to all their work if done according to her laws. 



You never get a response nor a fact from any of these, that to make 

 a tree hardy, graft the apple on the sycamore, the pear on oak, the peach 

 on the willow, the plum on the hackberry, or the cherry on maple. You 

 will not get the tree strawberry nor the evergreen raspberry, which gives 

 a crop for six months of the year, every month a crop. Xor the thorniest 

 blackberry as large as plums, more hardy and productive than the Snyder. 



Our colleges and stations, our fruit growers, and even dame nature 

 will not reciprocate for any favors in any such manner as this. But she 

 will reciprocate gladly if you atempt, according to her laws, to breed a 

 hardy fruit or improve one by careful selection. 



The depart of agriculture and the weather service. How gladly 

 they will respond for any favors. For the fruit grower a great advantge 

 not one-half appreciated or made use of. Only send in your reports 

 regularly and see how quickly they will respond. Call for the weather 

 report and your town may have them each morning, and know what the 

 day will be. Over and over, day by day, week by week, month by month 

 these scraps or items of information are being collected from our United 

 States Station, our colleges, our Experiment Stations, our fruit giowers 

 and given out vath a free hand to all, not only who help, V»ut to all the 

 land. 



Did you ever go through an orchard where every tree and branch 

 and twig and leaf seemed to plead to you for love, or cultivation, or dress- 

 ing or. perhaps, even a washing, such as a dirty boy sometimes gets? 

 Did you ever see an orchard which was skinned and scarred and bruised on 

 body and branch by the careless husbandman, and did it not occur to vou 

 that some of the bark should be taken off the man's legs and less off the 

 trees. Surely such trees will riciprocate in the returns that they give for 

 sure care. The old saying is still true "whatsoever a man soweth, that will 



