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ing. The appointment of committees and commissions to promote better use of 

 leisure time on the part of both rural and village people is recognition of the 

 trend. There must be more emphasis on living and less on making a living. 

 This is the field in which horticulturists could well afford to spend more of 

 their time, energy, and resources. 



IN CONCLUSION 



Horticulture is a field involving plants — fruits, flowers, vegetables, orna- 

 mentals, nursery crops, and the like. It has its science side, its affairs side, 

 and its artistic, esthetic, and social sides. 



As scientists working in this field, horticulturists are biologists and must tie 

 to biology, but as they are also horticulturists, they provide a bridge, a con- 

 necting link, the liaison between biology and the business and the art sides. 

 As L. H. Bailey has well stated, "The horticulturist is the man who joins 

 hands with the plant biologist on the one side and with the affairs of men 

 on the other, and whose energies are expended in every way in which plants 

 appeal to men." The horticulturist could do no better than to chart his course 

 with this as his compass. 



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