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ing kind and encouraging words, and then I think they will get 

 along nicely ; but I want to impress upon your minds that you must 

 not expect them to succeed every time. If they make a failure, say 

 a kind word and ask them to try again, and I believe they will do 

 it because others have done it. Let me illustrate ; — when I first 

 went into the Massachusetts Horticultural Society I had the care of 

 a large orchard garden and I thought I would wipe all those fellows 

 out. I took a collection, bigger than you see on that table, and 

 when the committee come around, what did T get? I didn't get 

 anything. I didn't say a word, but I made a careful comparison 

 and saw my mistake. I wouldn't take $1,000 for that failure; 

 because it was a life long experience to me. 



We have near Forest Hill Cemetery an arboretum. I think it is 

 the finest I have seen ; there is everything grown under name. The 

 name is printed m English and under that the Latin name, and you 

 can go in at any time and see every tree and shrub that can be 

 grown in Massachusetts right there. One of the benefits of that is 

 this. Perhaps you don't have the tree peddlars in Maine ; we do in 

 Massachusetts and they come along with chromos and bewitch every- 

 body, and the}' buy from that chromo and get badly disappointed. 

 Since I have been at Forest Hill Cemetery, people come and ask 

 what they can ornament their gardens with and I direct them or take 

 them over to the arboretum and if I can find Mr. Dawson he goes 

 around and they put down just what they like and know what they 

 are going to order. They can see it growing right before them. 

 Why cannot the Experiment Station have something of the kind up 

 there ? It will add great interest to the institution and be a safe and 

 certain guide to the people of Maine showing what they can grow in 

 their gardens and houses. You can buy seed and get a good selec- 

 tion of the hardy plants. I sent a small order to London for five 

 dollars and 3^ou would be astonished to see what a long list it was. 

 We could have the plants themselves but I didn't want them because 

 I could sow those seeds and grow plants, and from there put into 

 boxes and from the boxes to the bed or to the place where they are 

 going to stand ; and I can see them develop to the plant full grown. 

 That is why I am so interested. I want to see them grow myself. 



There is another department which I am extremely interested in 

 just now, and that is the cultivation of evergreens. I think you can 

 have most all kinds we have in Massachusetts here in Maine. We 

 have a little propagating house on the place. It is divided by a 



