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is not sufficient to bring about that rest that is necessary. For 

 the men who liave studied this question have come to this con- 

 clusion, that a man may be trusted on Monday but cannot be 

 trusted on Saturday night — the nervous force has been ex- 

 pended — and the men are different on Saturday night because 

 of this than on Monday morning. The result has been con- 

 siderable advance, that one day's rest has brought them back 

 to a normal condition. Where could that rest be more complete 

 than when you find it where the flowers grow and the trees are 

 growing and the birds are singing. My little boy has been 

 planting all l^inds of trees in a box, and he enjoys it. He had 

 some little beds in the house in which he germinated the seed, 

 and there was scarcely a day he did not call my attention to 

 these plants. And one day he set a little tree out and the wind 

 broke it off, and it nearly broke his little heart at the same time. 

 I was glad he felt bad about it. (I think it developes the boy's 

 sensibilities in the child to give attention to the things that 

 grow.) That a child, when a tree is broken or a shrub is 

 injured, has much the same feeling as when a pet bird or cat 

 has been hurt, and when you get the feeling stirred up in that 

 way the finer sensibilities are cultivated and it is a good thing 

 for the child, and when he grows up to manhood you will not be 

 surprised to know he is a humanitarian. 



The horticulturalists of this country had not given attention 

 to these things to so very large an extent until probably about 

 fifty years ago, when we began to do things in earnest. And it 

 is in the past century that horticulture has had its highest de- 

 velopment in the United States — especially along the line of 

 fruit growing. And it is said no country in the world has 

 made the advancement that America has made along these 

 lines. If this is true, and I think it is, we can justly feel proud. 

 There may have been men who have discovered great things, 

 made inventions that benefitted mankind, but I believe the man 

 who made two spears of grass to grow where one grew before, 

 the men who braved the dangers of this western country, 

 braved the dangers of the hot winds and the adverse conditions 

 and again began planting the apple, plum and cherry tree and 

 improve the fruit of these, have done the world a great deal of 

 good, and humanity will call them blessed for the efforts they 



