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because they can not resist the fascination of horticulture as an art 

 and a business, and the practical questions which it suggests. 



The commercial possibilities are disconcerting to some well-prepared 

 men. Too often they are drawn by the attraction of making money, 

 rather than by that of adding new facts to the fund of human knowl- 

 edge and thus becoming one of the civilizing agencies of their day. 

 The commercial spirit dominates the scientific, and they become rest- 

 less and dissatisfied. We can never have investigation in horticul- 

 ture, under the direction of horticulturists, until we have a class of 

 men with the investigative turn of mind, the training which prepares 

 for it, and the taste which makes its pursuit and its associations 

 satisfying. 



