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sorts which they have developed or introduced, in order that the plants in 

 the possession of the Department may come as directly as possible from 

 the original plant. All trees and plants which you may wish to furnish 

 us for this purpose will be considered as strictly private property, and 

 will be held subject to the orders of the originator or introducer. The 

 chief value of such a collection will develop in later years when the ques- 

 tion of identity of sorts comes up. So far as I am aware no collection 

 of this character has ever before been attempted, and its success will in a 

 large measure depend upon the co-operation of nurserymen and plant 

 breeders. I hope the idea will meet your approval, and that you will find 

 it agreeable to deposit with us specimens of all new fruits which you have 

 originated or introduced. 



Trusting to hear from you from time to time, I am, • 



Very truly yours, 



L. C. CoRBETT, Horticulturist. 



The readers of this Journal are interested in the above, and have the 

 same privilege to write the Department as above. — Editor of Horticultural 

 Visitor. 



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CONTENTMENT ON THE FARM. 



(By John N. Macomb, Lawrence, Kansas.) 



The Declaration of Independence gave us the right to life, liberty 

 and the pursuit of happiness. We want to be happy, but if we were to 

 go the country over and ask each person if he or she were happy would 

 we find a majority enjoying that blessing and would not the reason be 

 largely an unsatisfied longing for something unattainable? If you take 

 up a newspaper and look in the advertising columns do you not find long 

 lists of farms for sale? The people who own these farms are not happy 

 and are locating elsewhere. The man in business in the city is constantly 

 telling his wife that as soon as he makes a little more money he is going to 

 buy a farm and live on it and be happy. Year after year the census re- 

 minds us that the cities, great and small, are growing at the expense of 

 the rural population. The boys and girls are going from the farms to 

 the university to learn some profession which will give them wealth, but 

 in the end they lose the calm content of the farm. Again and again are 

 we reminded that "Man never is but always to be blest." Success is a 

 great source of happiness, and he who can show us how to succeed will 

 add to our happiness. Business success in any vocation depends upon 

 training and a proper application of such educational advantages as may 

 have been had to the work in hand — in other words, a proper combination 



