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bedding stuff, forcer of tea roses, of hybrid perpetual roses, veg- 

 etable gardening, grower of vegetable seed, the florist, pansy- 

 farm, strawberry farm, apple farm, and I might mention many 

 other subdivisions, each of which calls for special skill. 



No one man of good judgment would think of undertaking to 

 cover the whole field of horticulture in his work. It is too broad. 

 It requires too extended an acquaintance and too much practical 

 application for him to do so successfully. Then again each local- 

 ity has its special adaptation to special crops. In the counties 

 of Ulster and Orange in New York, we find growing the Hudson 

 Eiver Eed Antwerp raspberry, which is without doubt the best 

 red raspberry in cultivation, but it succeeds in no other locality 

 in the United States, that I can learn. We find that cauliflower 

 and cabbage seed can be grown most successfully near salt water; 

 that the Cuthbert raspberry is highly spoken of in some quarters, 

 while in others it is as strongly condemned Some apparently 

 barren land in New England has been found especially well adapted 

 to raising pansy seed; some sections of the country are noted 

 for producing mints containing a sufficient amount of essential oil 

 to make its manufacture a profitable industry. Only this week, 

 I have received a package of cauliflower seed which was raised 

 in Washington Territory and I think it is a precursor of a new 

 industry there. In each state and locality, we find that only a 

 limited number and kind of fruits and vegetables are recom- 

 mended; and undoubtedly these lists could often be much more 

 circumscribed with improvement. 



New crops and methods of raising crops are continually being 

 brought to light. A comparatively few years ago all the cran- 

 berries in the country were produced without cultivation on na- 

 tural bogs, and there was no literature on the subject. To day 

 there are thousands of acres of cranberries cultivated on artifi- 

 cially prepared bogs and the yields are sure and ten-fold greater. 

 Cranberry raising has become an important business and there 

 is a great amount of reliable information on the subject. 



The same thing can be said of the strawberry and the rasp- 

 berry. They have been developed and become generally culti- 

 vated within a short time. * 



I would mention many improvements made in fiowering 

 plants, vegetables and fruits; how we now have many improved 

 varieties of fiowering plants which afibrd pleasure to thousands, 

 and a substantial means of livelihood to hundreds of our cit- 

 izens. 



