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edge that can lead to future success cau be abundantly furnished, 

 and every agriculturist who has a sou or a daughter and can 

 properly spare the means should not fail to give them a literary 

 course in this institute. By all means send up the girls, that there 

 may be some ladies for the coming generation that may be fitted 

 to adorn rural homes. 



YOUSG LADIES AND WOMEN" AS FLORISTS. 



We now and then see a young lady who can adorn any station 

 in life, and yet can pick a hundred quarts of strawberries in a day 

 and find time to help her mother about the house work. Women 

 make good florists — and why may they not become equally famous 

 horticulturists? 



My friends, before I close let me call your attention to 

 the members of this society. Who and what are they? They 

 are worthy men who have passed the meridian of life. They 

 are men who have worked hard with one steady end in view; most, 

 perhaps all of them, will be gathered to their fathers long before 

 the mission of the society is finished. Will the work and the 

 society die with them? Where are the young men and boys from 

 whom we can recruit and fill our ranks after we have gone to our 

 rest? An effort should be made to enlist their help. 



HORTICULTURAL LITERATURE WANTED. 



To do this we want more horticultural literature and more local 

 societies and more popular meetings, and the premiums of our fairs 

 should be especially arranged for their benefit. I would direct 

 your attention to my address at the close of the last annual meet- 

 ing, and would add to those remarks by saying: Bring as much as 

 possible the social element into the meetings and harvest picnic, 

 and berries and cream should be inexpensive in the country, and 

 the children would enjo}^ them hugel3^ Let object lessons be 

 given in budding and grafting, crossing and hj-bridiziug, making 

 and planting of cuttings and layers, and offer a suitable prize to the 

 child that becomes most proficient in these. I believe that this 

 course, persistently pursued, would fill the ranks of our society so 

 that no hall in this city would be large enough to accommodate 

 such a meeting as this. 



