88 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1906 



plants, in producing new varieties of fruits thus adding wealth 

 to the country. Has encouraged rice production also tea cul- 

 ture and one of these years we will raise our own tea. 



The work of the agricultural colleges, the work for the 

 Board of Agriculture, the work of societies like this should be 

 supplemented by the educational work of the public schools in 

 teaching about soil, nature, and things that grow from the soil. 

 In some of the States we find the schools equipped to teach the 

 children something about agriculture. There is no more reason 

 why a boy should not become interested in the growth of plants 

 and seeds as in other things but it has been neglected. Now 

 with the establishment of the school garden we are leading up 

 to the highest agricultural education in our public schools and 

 I hope the time is not far distant when every school curriculum 

 in Massachusetts will be enriched by the addition of this study, 

 and this will help to make farmmg more intensive. It is only 

 by the influence of intelligence that we acquire these educa- 

 tional elements. 



Other speakers were William P. Rich, secretary of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Mrs. S. Ella Southland, 

 of the Massachusetts State Grange, Prof. Card, of the Rhode 

 Island Agricultural College, Dr. George Twitchell, of Maine, 

 Ledyard Bill, president Worcester Agricultural Society, J. K. 

 Greene, E. C. Powell, New England Homestead, and James 

 Draper. 



Speaking was interspersed with singing by the Schubert Male 

 Quartette. 



At 9.15 the meeting was adjourned to the lower hall, where 

 dancing was in order until 12 o'clock. President Hadwen lead- 

 ing the march with Mrs. Southland. 



The floor director was Arthur «T. Marble ; assistants, A.M. 

 Powell, William K. Stanley, Ed. A. Bartlett; aids, Fred H. 

 Hammond, Robert B. Rich, Henry E. Kinney, Myron E. Con- 

 verse, AUyne W. Hixon, Burt W. Greenwood. 



