YALE AGRICULTURAL LECTURES. 57 



EIGHTH DAY. FEB. 9, 1860. 



Surely no one is better able to give a valuable lecture upon 

 nursery management than the owner of the largest nursery in 

 the world no one more capable of discoursing upon horticul 

 ture than the ex-editor of The Horticulturist. What won 

 der, then, if Mr. P. BAERY'S lecture this afternoon should have 

 drawn a large audience, and given satisfaction. It is this fea 

 ture, I think, that gives Professor Porter's Yale discourses 

 great value, that his talkers are workers, his expounders of 

 theory eminent in practical experience. To have Fitch on In 

 sects, Barry on Nurseries, Johnson on Chemistry, and Grant 

 on Grapes, is like having Mott on Surgery, Palmer on Sculp 

 ture, Church on Painting, and Greeley on Journalism. And 

 until you can convince me that Paul Potter's bull is of more 

 importance to the nation than Samuel Thome's Grand Duke, 

 Wedgewood's pottery than the rougher sort which old Mr. 

 Johnston buries underground, I must think that our agricultu 

 ral lights shine with more useful brilliancy than would those at 

 the supposed convention of savans and artists. 



Mr. Barry commenced by saying that, although the subject 

 of nursery management might be deemed not generally inter 

 esting, since it was a calling by itself, yet every one who in 

 tended rearing an orchard, or even a few trees upon his farm, 

 should know enough of the mode of managing trees to rear 

 what few he might need to supply deficiencies which might 

 arise from death or other accidental causes, or at any rate to 

 give to his growing orchard or plantation such good care as 

 would make it most profitable. Twenty years ago, two or 

 three small nurseries in the neighborhood of each of our large 

 cities, occupying in all not more than five hundred acres, and 

 a few other small apple nurseries of an acre perhaps each, sup 

 plied the wants of the United States and the Canadas. Now 

 we have over one thousand nurseries ; and in Monroe county, 

 N. Y., alone, where he resides, there are three or four thousand 

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