290 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Horticulture in Western Canada. 



PROF. F. W. BRODRICK, AGRI. COLLEGE, WINNIPEG, MAN. 



We in Manitoba appreciate fully the excellent work that your 

 society is doing in the advancement of horticulture in your state. 

 We know that the various lines of horticulture, including pomol- 

 ogy, vegetable gardening, floriculture, plant breeding and land- 

 scape gardening, are all receiving recognition and support from 

 you. 



We rather jealously recognize, too, the excellent financial 

 support which your society is receiving from your state legis- 

 lature. We are not so fortunate — in this connection — in Mani- 

 toba, although the cause of horticulture is receiving fairly liberal 

 support. No institution can do effective and permanent work 

 without substantial and well-directed financial aid. A society 

 such as this, to succeed, must have financial support from the 

 state and must have the moral and intellectual support of its 

 members. 



I am pleased to note the splendid co-operation that exists 

 between this society and your State Agricultural College. The 

 work in the college will not succeed without the practical support 

 of the society, and the society in turn is benefited by the scien- 

 tific and technical work of the college — a happy arrangement 

 which is of benefit to both. 



We in Manitoba are looking to Minnesota for suggestions in 

 the solution of our horticultural problems. Your problems are 

 largely ours, and we are profiting by your experience. Our 

 problems, due to the more trying climatic conditions, are probably 

 more difficult of solution than yours. We are doing what we can 

 to solve them. The Agricultural College and the Horticultural 

 Association are working hand in hand to solve the problems con- 

 fronting us. Horticulture and the related sciences are now being 

 taught as regular subjects in our college courses. We, in this 

 way, are impressing upon our young men the importance of 

 horticulture as a specialized industry. 



We are also endeavoring to develop specialized men in hor- 

 ticulture to meet a need that seems to have arisen in connection 

 with our experimental farms, our forestry branch, our railroads 

 and in the civic improvement of our towns and cities. This need 

 will grow as the country develops and becomes more thickly set- 

 tled, and as our civic institutions become more permanently 

 established. Our short term men are being instructed in this 



