PREFACE xxi 



address before the Society for Horticultural Science at Philadelphia, December 

 27, 1904. This paper follows, aud concludes the preface: 



The members of this Society are interested in horticulture from its 

 so-called "professional" side, — from the point of view of teaching and 

 research. In this sense, the subject has been born, in this country, within the 

 past thirty years. So far as I know, the person who has had the longest con- 

 tinuous teaching service with horticulture as his leading profession is W. R. 

 Lazenby, who, now in the prime of life, occupies a seat before me. He began 

 his professional woi'k in IST-i in Cornell University. The states that first gave 

 horticulture a distinct and separate place in teaching and research are Michi- 

 gan, New York, Iowa, Ohio and Massachusetts. I do not know what teaching 

 institution first established a full chair in which horticulture was the only sub- 

 ject in the title, but there are few such chairs even yet. The first Experiment 

 Station to engage a "horticulturist" was probably the State Station at Geneva, 

 New York, and the lamented E. S. Goff was the person chosen. In most of 

 the early professorships, horticulture was associated with botany, entomology, 

 forestry or landscape gax'dening. I make the above remarks not for the pur- 

 pose of I'ecoi'ding history — for I have made no careful survey of the field, — 

 but only to call attention to the newness of these subjects in the curricula of 

 our colleges. We are forcibly reminded of the novelty of the subject from the 

 fact that we just now record the first death among our veteran colleagues, — 

 the death of Professor Budd, which occurred on the 20th of this month. Pro- 

 fessor Budd was a pioneer in a pioneer country. He made us to enlarge our 

 horizon and helped to open the gates of iiromise. 



As a college subject, the origin of horticulture has been various. In the 

 early days, it was associated oftenest with botany and split off from that sub- 

 ject. One of my old teachers told me, as a student, that "botany and horti- 

 culture" was a good professorship because I could gradually magnify the 

 botany. When I was asked to take the chair of horticulture at the Michigan 

 Agricultural College, a prominent botanist, who is now known personally or 

 by reputation to every one of you, said to me that he did not see "how under 

 heaven any man can take such a professorship as that." My dear old pre- 

 ceptor Asa Gray was surpi'ised, and I think, disappointed. When I sought to 

 minimize the disgrace of it by saying that a horticulturist needs to be a 

 botanist, he replied, "Yes, but he needs to be a horticulturist, too." 



Latterly, horticulture has been correlated with agriculture rather than with 

 botany. It has taken hold of affairs and is no longer a "chair," — for the 

 professorial "chair" typifies the old sit- still method of teaching. 



