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variety is called olericulture, and is another branch which the horticul- 

 turist may pursue. Flower growing, which ought to occupy a part of 

 every child's daily life, is called floriculture, and is the third great division 

 of horticulture. 



HORTICULTURE, BOTANY AND NATURI". STUDY. 



These lessons themselves may be used merely as suggestions for 

 work to be given in connection with botany — or better still, with nature 

 study. Tt has been said of botany and with some truth — more's the 

 ])ity — "when one begins seriously to count stamens and cut sections he 

 has started on a road that will take him away from gardening. The 

 plant should be stiulied first as a thing that has life and needs food and 

 water and culture — by that time the chances are that the student of it can 

 tell you more about its stamens and various other essential parts and 

 functions than can your mere student of bontany, and he will do it with 

 twice as much enthusiasm. 



AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL LESSONS. 



If studies having a bearing on agriculture are introduced into the 

 common schools, it does not follow that all the students will have their 

 energies directed to farming any more than the study of physiology makes 

 physicians of us all. But heretofore our common schools have been 

 justly accused of training the young away from rural life, and it is high 

 time that the needs of the sons and daughters of our great farming popu- 

 lation be recognized in the common schools throughout the land. It may 

 be asked "why not let them go to an agricultural college?" This is ex- 

 actly what they should do if they desire a superstructure of agricultural 

 training. But what can these higher schools of learning do with students 

 who come from public schools where all mention of agriculture has been 

 excluded — in fact if not by design — at least from the curriculum. — 

 Farmers' Tribune. 



FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF PLANT BREEDING. 



By Luther Burbank. 



(Read before the International Plant Breeding Conference, New York, 



September 30 to October 2, 1903.) 



Only the most limited view of plant breeding can be given in an ordi- 

 nary thesis. It would be necessary to extend the subject through many 

 volumes to give even a general view of what has already been demon- 

 strated, and that which the clear light of science has yet to bring forth 



