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ligently of the things he treats of, if he would have his article accepted 

 by the press. (Applause.) If he writes of roses, be must know how roses 

 are grown, and when he writes out those details he must be one who 

 knows that those details are practical and sensible; because newspapers 

 have learned that their constituency are not willing to pay for anybody's 

 theories. They want facts. (Applause.) And so the press of the whole 

 country to-day, in treating of agriculture and horticulture, treat of facts; 

 and, because of this, the public press has become a powerful adjunct to 

 horticulture. 



Just one illustration, and then I am done. Two years ago, in our farm- 

 ers institute work Prof. Gregg introduced to the institute a plan of a 

 farm, and told of a man who had produced a thousand of pounds of grapes 

 that year in a way peculiar to himself — a thinking and reading man, who 

 had belonged to the horticultural society and had followed all that broth- 

 ers Harris and Latham and these other horticulturists had written on the 

 subject of grape growing, and then applied them as far as he could prac- 

 tically to his surroundings and his soil and his facilities for doing the 

 work. He had done it well, and he had been successful. He was 

 traveling the right road. He stood, then, on that platform and he told 

 those farmers how one farmer had planted and grown grapes successfully. 

 Now, a newspaper man sitting in the audience listened to all this and 

 wrote down the details. Then Mr. Gregg sketched roughly a plan show- 

 ing the pruning of those vines. Well, in the city of Minneapolis an artist 

 transferred that picture to plates, and a few days afterwards those notes 

 — the details of that man's work in his garden with those grapes— were 

 published with the illustrations and delivered to the citizens of the en- 

 tire Northwest. It was plain and practical, and it shows the advance in 

 the management of the press of the world. That plain, practical talk 

 was given to the farmers of America, to the farmers of Europe, and even 

 to those of Australia in less than sixty days (applause); and so this work 

 goes on. 



A man develops a new fruit or a new berry; a man develops a new 

 method for caring for his fruits during our severe winters; some enter- 

 prising newspaper man gathers up the details, spreads them before the 

 general public, and that little secret becomes the property of the whole 

 country. My friends, it may be unjust, but it is certainly in the interests 

 of humanity. 1 believe that the individual who takes the thought and 

 dresses it up in the garb that is most attractive and accessible to the 

 general public becomes the owner of that thought and receives the honor 

 of it. This much the press gets, perhaps, that does not belong to it. 

 (Laughter.) 



President Underwood: Emphasizing still further this thought 

 of education, I propose "Education and Horticulture." It lifts 

 the old out of the ruts and makes smooth the path for the 

 young. I call for Prof. S. B. Green to respond. 



Prof. Green: This is a subject in which I am deeply inter- 

 ested, and it is one I have quite a good deal to say on, but our 

 chairman told me I could have but five minutes to talk upon it, 

 so I thought I would jot down some notes to aid me, as I was 



