THE MINNESOTA HORTICULTURIST. 421 
“THE MINNESOTA HORTICULTURIST.” 
BY WYMAN ELLIOT, MINNEAPOLIS. 
Response toa Toast at the Banquet concluding the last Annual 
Meeting. 
“Our reports taken in homoeopathic doses regulate the system 
and create a healthy circulation.” 
When that renowned scholar and physician, Samuel Hahneman, 
the founder of the system of homeopathy, discovered, in 1790, the 
wonderful and various effects his medicines produced upon the dis- 
eases of mankind and in the method of administration, either by 
concentration, size or frequency of the dose, he little thought of the 
radical change and reviving influence this discovery would have in 
moulding the concrete ideas of mankind in the next century. Espe- 
cially in the method of directing whatever they had to offer, ina 
more concentrated form—if not always sugar-coated—in quantity 
and quality, that would make it a more attractive dose. 
When he discovered that a drug had produced upon man in health 
the very symptoms which were required to cure a man in sickness, 
it immediately suggested to him the law, similia similibus curantur 
(like cures like). : 
So, reasoning from analogy, when our large doses of horticultural 
reports had been sent forth, year after year, receiving recognition 
from the people, the press and our friends, only in limited manner, 
your executive board sought to learn the reason why their attempts 
for educating the masses were not more appreciated. The quality 
of the goods was all right—“all wool anda yard wide’—, but where 
was the trouble? They soon discovered that, like the medicine of 
the old school physician, given in massive doses, notwithstanding 
it generally cured, it sometimes produced opposite results; and af- 
ter a long and laborious diagnosis of signs and symptoms, your 
board came to the scientific determination that what our members 
and the public at large most needed to enlist them in the way of ac- 
cepting our horticultural literature must be given in small digesti- 
ble doses, and, lest harm might ensue, wisely decided to divide the 
usual yearly dose into twelve powders to be given monthly, always 
insisting upon their positive purity and educational qualities; and, 
like the renowned Hahneman, watch their circulatory effects upon 
the horticultural system. 
This experimental work, though not by any means considered per- 
fect, being yet somewhat crude, has accomplished wonderful effects 
upon the thinking masses,and, not unlike the first steps in selecting 
the favorite homeopathic drug suited to the disease, it must be 
given in the proper form by an able and energetic editor to always 
meet the exigencies of the case and produce the crowning results by 
aiding the circulation and the receiving of the almighty dollar. 
To give you some idea of the appreciation of our monthly after a 
few months triaJ, I will quote a few of the kind words that have 
been written by our patrons, selected through the kindness of our 
secretary, out of many he has received since we launched our horti- 
cultural bantling under his energetic and organizing ability as sec- 
retary and editor. 
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