94 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETr. 



MORE EDUCATIOX IN FLORICULTURE XECESSARY TO 



PROFITABLE ENJ0Y3IEXT TIIEREIX. 



By Edwaku II. GODDAKD, AVoodfords. 



The citizens of this vState are slow about embracing new ideas 

 and novel fashions. We need something to quicken our pulses and 

 enable our eyes to see further ; and that something is a greater 

 desire to keep abreast of the times, and in just that degree, that we 

 acquire this desire in our different departments of business or social 

 life, shall we see that people in other states and cities than our own 

 are moving in advance of us. "\Ye in this age, must live intensely 

 to keep up with the moving throng." 



The people of other places are ahead of us and in no way more so 

 peihaps than in respect to plants and flowers. 



Styles in these are all second-hand with us ; Chicago, New York 

 and Boston, each must have a hand before we are awake to the fact 

 that we must have what they have enjoyed for a long time. Amer- 

 ican Beauty roses are grown extensively in other states but Maine 

 gets along with very few, except for those people who visit our 

 summer resorts. 



It has been but a year or two that any interest could be drawn to 

 Chrysanthemums, but we are beginning to realize their worth, and 

 a Maine Chrysanthemum show is not far off. Orchids are grown in 

 many places and meet ready sales, but a dozen flowers is a large 

 stock for a Portland florist, and often one-half that quantity would 

 glut the market. But after all our dullness we are quite alive to 

 the fact that we must have plants and flowers. 



It is now the proper thing for everybody to wear at least a soli- 

 tary flower if any social is to be participated in. We work longest, 

 without fatigue and execute better work, when in our happiest 

 moods, and what, may I ask, lifts us out of our sordid, rutted ways 

 of living and infuses inspiration, like gleams of something beautiful? 

 Beauty is always restful and pleasing, wherever found, and in 

 whatever form it may be found. 



Almost every woman in our land will have plants indoors during 

 the long winter months ; she pets and cares for them to the best of 

 her ability, while she watches anxiously for a flower, and it is often 

 the case that a large amount of labor and love is required to pay for 



