282 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



and some to store for winter use is a treat the average family 

 can not atTord to miss. 



FLOWERS, PLANTS AND ORNAMENTALS. 



(Read before National Nurserymen's Convention, 1910). 



BY C. S. HARRISON. 



There is a forward movement all around us; you can feel 

 it in the air and hear its tread on the earth. Utility is giving 

 way to refinement and beauty. Farm and home adornment 

 are coming to the front. The whole land is in the throes of 

 a neAV birtli, when symmetry is going to take the place of de- 

 formity. Too often the home has been an unsightly carbuncle 

 on the face of nature instead of a fair picture in harmonious 

 framework matching the splendor of tJie sky, the freshness 

 of the forest, field and the lake which flashes like diamonds 

 pinned to the bosom of Mother Earth. 



The whole world begins to feel like the little girl who went 

 from the unkempt, unadorned farm liome to visit some friends 

 who lived in a fine house with a spacious lawn hemmed in with 

 charming trees, with attractive flower beds, and everywhere 

 there was the touch of taste and refinement. These things 

 woke up the soul within her. Her whole being Avas thrilled 

 and when she got home and was saying her evening prayer 

 she added, "Oh, Lord, can't you give us a little more style?" 

 And that simple petition has Itroadened out into a mighty 

 importunity which is reaching to heaven and bringing answer 

 down to earth. 



KEEPING UP WITH PROCESSION. 



It is strange when the mission of the nurseryman is to pro- 

 claim through all the land the evangel of beauty you will find 

 him lagging in the rear. lie does not keep up with the pro- 

 cession or keep step with the age and with God. He doesn't 

 raise choice flowers and plants and fine ornamentals; he says 



