THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. 



American Rose Society. The suggestion met with favor and it 

 was so decided. 



The resignation of Mr. J. C. Eno, an annual member, was 

 accepted. 



The meeting adjourned at 4:35. 



George V. Nash, 



Secretary. 

 March 17, 1910 



The regular meeting should have been held on the ninth, but 

 by action of the Council it was decided to postpone the meeting 

 until the seventeenth, that it might be held in conjunction with 

 the meeting of the American Rose Society, scheduled for that 

 date. The meeting of the society therefore took place on the 

 afternoon of the seventeenth. There was no business transacted. 

 An address and an illustrated lecture were delivered, the former 

 by Mr. James Wood on " The Ideals of Horticulture," postponed 

 from the meeting of February; the latter by Mr. George V. Nash 

 on " The Rose and its History." These are given below. 



THE IDEALS OF HORTICULTURE 

 By James Wood 



The true horticulturist takes delight in the study and cultivation of his 

 plants, as well as in the admiration of the beauty of their forms and foli- 

 age, or of their flowers. He finds that contact with and study of this 

 department of nature's wonders has a refining and elevating influence 

 upon his character. If he is a true member of the brotherhood of man, 

 he desires that this benefit and this pleasure may be shared by others and 

 be extended as widely as possible; indeed, it may be said that the highest 

 ideal of horticulture is to make, if possible, the earth more beautiful and 

 mankind better and happier because of its benefits, an ideal closely related 

 to the beautiful imagery of the Messianic prophets of old when, in glowing 

 terms, they described how even the desert should be made to blossom as 

 the rose. The true horticulturist pursues his vocation, not for his own 

 pleasure and profit alone, but for the joy it gives him to have other lives 

 brightened and benefited by his work. 



Horticulture and agriculture alike have to do with the cultivation of 

 plants. The former is the more closely confined to the work, agriculture 

 having a wider range in its operation, including the animal kingdom as 



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