Farming 83 



There is a remark in a letter of 1890 from Mr. Olmsted 

 to Dr. Peter Collier, Director of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station at Geneva, N. Y., which shows how important he 

 considered this period of his career : ' ' I began life as a farmer, 

 and although for forty years I have had no time to give to 

 agricultural affairs, I still feel myself to belong to the farming 

 community, and that all else that I am has grown from the 

 agricultural trunk." 



