36 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1906 



We are so intimately connected now with foreign countries 

 by our international relations that we are liable to the invasion 

 of other things. Three-fourths of the pests which we have 

 to-clay are of foreign importation, and we know not what may 

 come in the future. I believe the most important thing for us 

 to do is to become informed concerning them, and I believe 

 that we should begm in our public schools along the lines of na- 

 ture work, so that our pupils may be sent into the fields and 

 gardens everywhere, trained to discover these things as soon 

 as they appear So let us work together for the advancement 

 of nature study in our schools that shall be along these practi- 

 cal lines and we shall have discovered a way to control these 

 insect pests. 



