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nance of a large family. Horticulturists, as a class, are in 

 telligent, thinking people. Why? Because the products 

 of the garden are better sustainers of the brain than hog 

 and hominy. Show me a country without orchards and, 

 gardens, and you will there find a stolid, embruted race. 

 But where the trees drop ripe fruits, and well-tilled gardens 

 are swelling with vegetable wealth, and casting their sweet 

 perfume of flowers over all, there we may be sure dwells an 

 intelligent, thinking, onward-moving people, whose motto is 

 Excelsior. 



&quot; Let one or two individuals in each neighborhood set the 

 example, and it will not be long before others will follow, 

 and soon gardens will be planted by all. Why, then, will 

 not all decide to do something more for the next year than 

 they have already done in the past, that our homes may be 

 made more smiling and happy, from season to season ? It 

 is neither a small business nor unprofitable. Do you lack 

 knowledge? Learn from books and other products of the 

 teeming press the depositories of all knowledge.&quot; 



THE FUTURE INFLUENCE OF HORTICULTURE. 



The words above, _ written twelve years ago for Illinois, 

 would apply, in many situations, with as much force now. 

 With wealth comes the desire for all that can make life 

 comfortable and smooth. . &quot;f he road to wealth lies as much 

 through the garden as the farm. That farmer who neglects 

 this branch of his profession does justice neither to his God, 

 his family, nor himself; for the garden gives health, and. 

 with health, thrift and economy ; if wealth do not follow, cer 

 tainly the man has but to blame himself. 



Where once the painted savage lived by rapine and plun 

 der, the cabins of the peaceful pioneer have been built. 



