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essential art of taking notice, seeing or fixing the mind upon 

 anything seen or heard — the act of recognizing and noting all the 

 peculiar facts or phenomena as they occur in nature. 



One of the questions for our present consideration is, are we 

 doing all we can to enlighten, instruct and assist our members and 

 those interested in agricultural and horticultural pursuits? What 

 more efficacious means should be adopted, eliciting a greater de- 

 sire among our people to develop all our horticultural resources? 



What we need at the present time is more method, more system, 

 more push, and energy displayed by all our members in carrying 

 on their different classes of horticultural work. Special lines of 

 work need appropriate organizations to develop their particular 

 interests. The nursery men have their little hobbies that they 

 wish to place in the foreground on all occasions. The florists have 

 their peculiar methods for advancing their interests. The small 

 fruit and vegetable growers should have their societies for develop- 

 ing their greatest prosperity. And the relative position of the 

 State Horticultural Society towards all these kindred organizations 

 should be as conservator for blending all their individual indus- 

 tries into one broad central organization, where we can mutually 

 work and annually come together to make common cause for our 

 just rights ; discuss plans and methods for widening and broaden- 

 ing our usefulness as progressive, industrious conservators of hor- 

 ticultural instruction for the masses. 



The following clipping illustrates plainly : 



"THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATION." 



" The ordinary individual, no matter what his station in life may 

 " be, can have little, if any, influence on the public policy of the 

 "country. Some single persons, enormously endowed with that 

 " which ' makes the mare go,' may exert much power, but such are 

 "not ordinary individuals ; they are extraordinary, and the power 

 " they wield is usually for the worst interests of their fellowmen. 

 " It is only through organization that the common honest masses 

 " can in any way promote the public good. Our agricultural and 

 " horticultural organizations and conventions can, if they set their 

 " heads to the work, secure the passage of such laws as the public 

 " good requires. Largely attended popular assemblages have a 

 " dignity and force about them that will attract the attention and 

 "compel the respect of even the demagogues who are disposed to 

 "respect a movement according to the number of votes it can coni- 

 "mand, and if it 'speaks out' its voice is more apt to be heeded 

 "than the disjointed mutteringsof many times the number, acting 

 " separately, and speaking, each man for himself. The Grange, 

 "the Alliance, Farmers' Institutes, Horticultural and Life Stock So- 

 " cieties, are each powerful for moulding opinion in right chan- 

 " nels, and they cannot fail to exert a powerful influence upon the 

 " country." 



We are cognizant of the fact that in the past we have had great 

 opposition from some sources and many natural difficulties to over- 

 come, but the greater the resistance the more energy and exertion 



