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HORTICULTURE AND FRUIT RAISING, 



BY E. E. ANDREWS, OF BERLIN. 



To talk pleasantly upon this subject may be quite easy, 

 but to write profoundly is far more difficult, and to thor- 

 oughly succeed in impressing the hearts of the multitude 

 with the utility of horticulture, would require far greater 

 experience than most of us possess. The most I can hope 

 to do is to stimulate others to do better than I have done — 

 others who not only recognize nature's laws but also the 

 abihty of man to co-operate with Him whose right it is to 

 establish law. 



In the beginning, when God had created all things, 

 and after pronouncing all that He had made " very 

 good," He gave man dominion over all that He had made, 

 and placed him in a beautiful garden called Eden, (not in 

 Northern Yermont but farther East,) to dress and keej) it. 

 The first and only place, at that time, where horticulture 

 had been introduced by the Great Husbandman. I speak 

 of this merely to show the utility of this noble calling, and 

 the necessity of rendering assistance to nature's laws in the 

 greater development of her resources. And had God intended 

 that nature should have perfected her own work without the 

 aid of man, then had Adam been thrown out of employ- 

 ment and lost his titled honor of both keeper and cultivator 



