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more capable of rendering our highest and best service, both to 
those who are near and dear to us and to all others to whom we can 
and will render assistance. 
In harmony with nature’s requirements we plant the seed, set the 
young tree in the soil, study the times and the seasons of stirring 
the soil, methods and times of applying the different kinds of 
fertilizers, the effects of drouth and moisture, heat and cold, pruning 
or non-pruning, etc.,etc. We observe the tree’s development, fruitage 
or seeding, see the benefits and pleasures resulting to mankind from 
the consumption of the fruit, the manifold uses of the wood and 
timber produced by growth, notice and enjoy the beauty added to 
the landscape, the provided shelter against the scorching sun, 
against the drying winds of summer, against the arctic and snowy 
blizzards of winter, the amelioration and lessening of extremes of 
climate. 
_In all these things the muscles are healthfully exercised, the 
lungs are expanded, the blood invigorated, the countenance beams 
with force and intelligence, the mind considers and studies subjects 
that elevate and enoble the man, the moral nature is educated, 
strengthened and exalted to a higher plane, if the opportunities are 
properly utilized. 
The speaker deems it far better for the world that our experimen- 
ters and thinkers use their God-given powers along the lines already 
mentioned, instead of thinking, talking and writing in a learned 
way upon natural selection, development and evolution, pratense 
biogenesis, the primordial germ, etc., etc. 
Itis wonderful how many iiteiectaal and moral gluttons and 
misers there arein this world of ours. Filled to repletion themselves 
they will not and cannot bestow on others of their abundance ina 
form that can be utilized by the numerous needy and deserving of 
the earth. I am assured that man has been placed upon the earth, 
not only to develop himself physically, intellectually and morally 
but by all his powers to also aid his fellow beings in the same 
direction. I am glad to quote from our Professor Brewster as 
follows: ‘Mental, moral and esthetical culture are essential to the 
development of the perfect flower and fruitage of true character. 
The ideal horticulturist must not only have both,—the practical to 
make him successful in the perplexities and labors of his calling, 
and the personal culture to develop his moral character—but he 
must place upon each its due consideration at the proper time. 
When he buys his land, fertilizes his soil, selects his seed, plants 
his fields, cultivates his ground, trains his vines, prunes his trees» 
kills his weeds, harvests his crops, he must be © geologist,a chemist 
a physicist and a botanist, as well asa horticulturist. But in and 
through itali he should remember that his every success in raising 
and selling his crops is not an end buta meanstoan end. Heis 
deeply conscious of this truth,and every day of his life bears witness 
of the fact. His every plan is made, not as a temporary means, but 
as a factor in some permanent end. His highest ambition is to be 
thorough in all his plans, successful in all his efforts, faithful to all 
his duties and grateful for all his blessings.” 
My dear friends, the ideal implies the attainable, and if the horti- 
