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sorry that I cannot add anything to the meeting, as my time is fally 
employed, and my mind not being as much engaged as formerly in horticul- 
ture, have since living in this wild country lost a great deal of interest, aS 
I rarely see a flower of any kind; but as I wish to remain a member (if not 
an active one) of the society I enclose you one dollar. Hoping you may 
have a pleasant meeting and an increase of interest and membership, 
believe me, as ever, 
Yours fraternally, 
WM. CANNON. 
MR. HOLLISTER’S PAPER. 
A paper on ‘‘ The Garden on the Farm ’’ was then read by U. 
S. Hollister, of St. Paul. The paper was ordered filed for publi- 
cation and was as follows: 
Where shall we draw the line separating horticulture from agriculture, in 
the common acceptance of terms used to designate these professions? 
Agricultural conventions meet to discuss cattle, grains, vegetables and gen- 
eral agriculture, including many horticultural questions. 
Horticulturists in session discuss fruits, flowers, vegetables, and many 
questions strictly agriculturai. 
Agriculture, horticulture—twin children of mother earth, born in the 
same epoch—they have friendly gone hand in hand since men had first 
record of one another. 
The one has gladdened the world with bread; the other has smiled on us 
from our gardens, and by ministering to our finer nature, has made_the 
world a better one. 
As a student of both, I have never yet learned to love one better than the 
other. I am content with either, when the other is away; am not confused 
when both are present, as I find their representatives here to-night. 
We cannot draw the line between the choice little dwarf apple tree of the 
garden and the great commercial orchards of the farm. 
We cannot draw the line between the finer vegetables and the potato; 
we cannot draw the line between Indian corn and sugar cane. 
We cannot draw the line between the lawns of our city homes and the 
blue grass valleys of the farm. Let us give it up, and acknowledge that we 
are big and little farmers here to learn how much we can improve our con- 
dition by accepting the gauntlet that nature has thrown down at our feet, 
and by intelligent toil improve our products and meet needs, and enhance 
the pleasures of life. 
I take this position that you may the better understand why I thought fit 
to talk about potatoes and cabbages in a horticultural meeting. 
From the observation of travel and a life among the farmers, I am led to 
know that as a general rule farm gardening is the most neglected, the most 
slip-shod department in agriculture. 
You all know how it looks. In riding through the country the only indi- 
cation of a garden on many farms is the very strong and thrifty condition 
of the weeds on a little plot somewhere near the house. 
After all the field crops are in and the hurry of spring work is out of the 
