Agriculture and Its Needs 55 



for the markets. Here and there one gets 

 rich through the discriminating propaga- 

 tion of one or the other, but most of us 

 seem to blindly suppose that they are whol- 

 ly dependent upon their own spontaneity, 

 and that there is nothing to do but to leave 

 them to nature and to chance. Yet there 

 are other states and other nations which 

 see that it is worth more than it costs to 

 make each of them the subject of the in- 

 vestigations and the teachings of a distinct 

 department of a university. Then there is 

 the vital subject of horticulture in its larger 

 aspects, with its infinite claims and its 

 unspeakable possibilities. The apples, 

 pears, grapes, and nuts; the forests, the 

 shade trees, all phases of landscape archi- 

 tecture and gardening, demand the over- 

 sight and the leadership and the aid of the 

 State on both the scientific and practical 

 sides. Yet again, there is the still larger 



