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done in six years when small. There is nothing in the world which 

 expands a man as much as getting knowledge of everything he can. 

 You need never be afraid of learning too much of anything. The 

 country is full of knowledge, and you can have just as much as you 

 are willing to take. The world is full of the goodness of God ; you 

 can have just as much as you are willing to take. 



Let us follow the plan of the paper and have horticulture in our 

 schools, but let us not forget that we should not neglect the greater 

 studies and the greater development in our University while we are 

 caring for the lesser. 



Again, the. best way to get horticulture in our schools is to teach 

 it in our colleges and universities — prepare our teachers for this work 

 and they will gladly take it up. It is only teaching nature in an im- 

 proved way, and our teachers ought to be ready to teach it as soon 

 as they become acquainted with its needs. I believe horticulture 

 should be taught in our gchools, but not from a text-book. It should 

 be taught by talking and telling about the trees and vines, and fruits^ 

 and vegetables, and by illustration, and experimenting, and testing, and 

 examining common things about us; learn of them and from them. 

 Show them seed and how to plant them; show them twigs and how 

 they bud ; show Ihem trees, and vines, and plants and plant them, and 

 fiee them grow. All this should be done, should it not, without bringing 

 down to book-form this knowledge? Make it a study of nature in 

 horticulture, or rather horticulture in nature. 



Mr. Murray — I want to say a few words endorsing the paper and 

 and what friend Goodman has said, and a word in regard to the pros- 

 pects of getting horticulture in our schools. This matter was before 

 the Thirty-ninth General Assembly. As chairman of the Committee 

 on Agriculture, I think we could have passed anything along this line 

 if we had been prepared for it, but we had no work ready for instruc- 

 tion along the line of horticulture, so we thought best to wait till a 

 work could be formulated. I don't doubt that we can get the law 

 when we are ready for it. We wonder why our sons don't attend the 

 school of horticulture. You can't get them to take it till they want it. 



PEACHES FOR CENTRAL MISSOURI. 



Below I give you a list of peaches that succeed best with us : 

 Early Rivers, Mountain Rose, Early York, Old Mixon Free, Old Mixon 

 Cling, Smock, Stump, Elberta, Crawford's Late, Henrietta, Piquett's 

 Late, Sal way. 



