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III. The art and home side. 

 (a) The love of plants. 

 (6) The love of gardens. 



(c) The use of plants to heighten the beauty and meaning of the 

 landscape. 



It would be violence, no doubt, to draw conclusions from this rambling 

 discourse; but if I were asked what is the domain of the horticulturist I 

 would reply in some such way as this: the horticulturist is one of the men who 

 join hands with the plant biologist on one side and with affairs on the other, 

 and whose energies are expended in every way in which plants appeal to men 



L. H. BAILEY. 



■July 26, 1905. 



